Leighton Road Evangelical Church, Ipswich

Leighton Road Evangelical Church is a nonconformist independent evangelical church located on the Gainsborough estate, Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk.

The church building was erected on land bought from Ipswich Borough Council in 1935.

Of local interest is a large oak tree, around 400 years old, at the front of the church.

Although the tree does not currently have a Tree Preservation Order on it, it is believed locally to have been used by 19th century Suffolk heroine Margaret Catchpole to harness her horse to, on occasions.

The church consists on one main chapel building of the mid-1930s which has recently been extended at the back with a small Sunday school room and disabled toilet added.

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