| Country: | England |
| Official Name: | Chelmondiston |
| Os Grid Reference: | TM204372 |
| Coordinates: | 51.9895°N 1.2086°W |
| Population: | 1,054 |
| Population Ref: | (2011)[1] |
| Shire District: | Babergh |
| Region: | East of England |
| Shire County: | Suffolk |
| Constituency Westminster: | South Suffolk |
| Post Town: | IPSWICH |
| Postcode District: | IP9 |
| Area Total Km2: | 5.17 |
| Postcode Area: | IP |
| Static Image: | St. Andrews church, Chelmondiston, Suffolk - geograph.org.uk - 282514.jpg |
| Static Image Width: | 240px |
| Static Image Caption: | St Andrew's Church, Chelmondiston |
Chelmondiston is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England located on the Shotley Peninsula, five miles south-east of Ipswich. The hamlet of Pin Mill lies within the parish on the south bank of the River Orwell. The village comprises approximately 500 dwellings and has a population of just over 1,000. It is one of the largest villages situated on the Shotley Peninsula.[2]
The etymology of the word Chelmondiston is perhaps ‘Ceolmund’s dwelling’. The parish contains a number of Bronze Age barrow sites. Chelmondiston and Pin Mill do not appear in the Domesday Book of 1086.[3] It was formerly known as Chelmington[4] and was located in the old hundred of Babergh.[5]
The original parish church of St. Andrew was described in 1865 as an "old, small, dilapidated edifice, with a square tower",[6] and it was subsequently rebuilt by architect Edward Charles Hakewill. On 10 December 1944, during World War II, a flying bomb hit Hakewill's church and it was almost completely destroyed.[7] In 1951, Basil Hatcher was commissioned to provide a replacement. The modern St. Andrew's church includes a set of stained glass windows made by Francis Skeat in the 1960s.[8] There is also a Methodist church on the Main Road and a Baptist church on Pin Mill Road.