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.

[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.

The modern St. Andrew's church includes a set of stained glass windows made by Francis Skeat in the 1960s.