Ss Peter and Paul Churchyard in Felixstowe, Suffolk

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Felixstowe, Suffolk Coastal District, Suffolk IP11 9NF England

Coordinates: 51.97164, 1.36788
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The full designation for this church, following mergers with other parishes is now St Peter & St Paul with St Andrew & St Nicholas. Until a couple of hundred years ago, this was a small church in the middle of a tiny, straggling village. It was an outpost of the much larger village of Walton, a couple of miles to the south.

Now, Felixstowe has reached out and engulfed Walton, becoming Suffolk's fourth largest town, home to not far short of 40,000 people. Walton parish church sits on the edge of Felixstowe's modern town centre, but the church that is Felixstowe's in name sits far out in the north-eastern suburbs, so that you would be most surprised to see its modern setting if you had travelled in time from then to now. Not far from here, and just across the parish boundary in Walton, stood the now submerged Roman fortification of Walton Castle. It was here in 631 that St Felix came ashore after travelling from Burgundy at the invitation of the East Anglian royal family, and established his see of Dumnoc. You can still see remains of the castle off of Old Felixstowe at very low tides.