April 2020

In the last blog (posted yesterday) I forgot to mention two points promised in the previous blog of 25/04. Workhouses were not so bad – this point was prompted by the consideration of those who died in Sculcoates workhouse and were buried in the second of the two detached burial grounds north of Sculcoates Lane. […]

As seen from blogs ‘Sculcoates 1 and 2’ (5th and 6th April) Sculcoates, before the building of New Dock (Queen’s Dock), was a rural parish, the village/hamlet being close to the west bank of the River Hull. This would have been a precarious site and a less obvious one than, for example, the spring-line settlements

The photo above shows the entrance gate off Sculcoates Lane to the seven acre site of glebe land allocated as the second detached burial ground for the Georgian St Mary’s church, Sculcoates (parish). The site today is very overgrown and as such is a very interesting nature reserve (although not an official one) and a

The Minute Book for the Burial Committee of Hull Corporation for the year 1883 provides some evidence about the two detached burial grounds on Sculcoates Lane serving the Georgian church of St. Mary’s Sculcoates. They state that the churchyard adjacent to the church was declared full in 1817 (this slightly contradicting Greenwood’s date (s.p.b.) but

Greenwood’s Picture of Hull, 1835 (s.p.b.s) in his section on Sculcoates Georgian church (s.p.b.s) states that ‘near the church is a new burial ground, formed about eight years ago’ (c.1827). He describes this detached burial ground as being three acres in size surrounded by a brick wall and created at a cost of £4000 ‘which

The churchyard monument described by Greenwood (1835 and see previous blogs) appears in his illustration of the Georgian church and churchyard (bottom left, and see the illustration two blogs back) and survives today (see above), although in a crumbling state. I have never been inside the current St. Mary’s, Sculcoates (1916, although, apparently, not completed