Hull No. 2 / Kings-town upon Hull / Kingston-upon-Hull / Kingston upon Hull / Wyke on Hull

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2003 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3223469] [accessed 24 November 2016]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lowgate, Kingston upon Hull. St Mary's parish church, circa 1327, chapel-of-ease to All Saints church, North Ferriby. Became independent of mother church by 1682. A new tower 1697; south porch, minor south aisle and vestry added, and tower remodelled during restoration, 1861-63, by Sir George Gilbert Scott, cousin of the then vicar, John Scott."

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 February 1982 by Bernard Sharp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3382061] [accessed 24 November 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: a bit of the modern font is visible in the foreground, right corner -- Source caption: "St Mary's parish church, circa 1327, chapel-of-ease to All Saints church, North Ferriby. Became independent of mother church by 1682. A new tower 1697; south porch, minor south aisle and vestry added, and tower remodelled during restoration, 1861-63, by Sir George Gilbert Scott, cousin of the then vicar, John Scott. Depicted is the interior, late 14th to early 15th century. Perpendicular rood screen by Temple Moore, 1912, with cross and figures above by Gilbert Boulton."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2014 by Bernard Sharp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3930881] [accessed 24 November 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "decorated Gothic font by local mason Thomas Frith, 1863"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2014 by Bernard Sharp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3930816] [accessed 24 November 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the 19thC font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 1998 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 13964HUL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [aka St Mary in Lowgate]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Hull, Lowgate, Yorkshire, HU1 1EJ, UK

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located in Lowgate, in Hull city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Date: ca. 1327?

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Hull in the Domesday survey. Noted in Glynne's 1867 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "There is a fine new font", probably one installed in the renovations on the design by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1861-3. Glynne (ibid.) had visited Hull St. Mary's earlier, in April 1825, before Scott's renovation, but his notes of that visit are very brief and there is no mention of a font in them. The new font is described in Bulmer's Gazetteer of 1892 "The stone font is octagon in shape, the sides being charged with quartrefoils, containing the ark, dove, sacred monogram and cross, alternated with foliage - a mass of elaborate decoration." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 1 1969) notes: "The chapel of St. Mary, in Lowgate, is first mentioned in 1327. [...] Like Holy Trinity it was a chapel-of-ease, the mother-church in this case being North Ferriby. In 1333 the mother-church was appropriated to North Ferriby Priory, and in the same year St. Mary's was made a parish church in almost everything but name. [...] The medieval chaplains seem to have been members of the priory, but after the Dissolution North Ferriby and St. Mary's were separately served and at least since 1682 have had different patrons. [...] Melton's licence in 1333 speaks of the church as newly built (de novo constructa). A gradual rebuilding appears to have been undertaken during the late 14th or early 15th century. It began at the east end, which belongs to the first third of the 15th century, and culminated in the completion of the west tower in the first decade of the 16th century. [...] In 1697 a new tower was built [...] The exterior was twice extensively restored in the 19th century [...] A new font was provided in 1717". The present font is 19th-century in a Decorated style. [NB: the old church dated back to the 14th century, and there are indications of an even earlier church on this site, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.74396, -0.33204

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 44′ 38.26″ N, 0° 19′ 55.34″ W

UTM: 30U 675936 5958339

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-10-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.