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C20 Churches
Holy Family and St Michael
| Monument type | Roman Catholic Church |
|---|---|
| Listing grade | NL |
Architect(s)
Firm: Brown & Burgess
Construction
| Date completed | 1931 |
|---|
Location
Main Road
Kesgrave
Ipswich
IP5 2QP
England
| Local authority | Suffolk Coastal |
|---|
Denomination
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
|---|---|
| Diocese | East Anglia |
Additional notes
Extended by H. Munro Cautley in 1955 and by Terry Norton (Wearing, Hastings & Norton) in 1992-93.
Contains much glass by cousins Margaret Agnes Rope (a Carmelite Nun) and Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope and fittings by other Rope family members and is a memorial to Margaret Agnes’s cousin Squadron Leader Michael Rope who partly designed and died in the R101 airship when it crashed in 1930 – church also contains metal and other remains from the airship and a model of it is suspended from the ceiling; also contains some glass by Margaret Agnes Rope from the former East Bergholt Convent founded by English Benedictine nuns.
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