A very valuable source of evidence re life in Hull in the 1830s and before is a Malet Lambert Local History Reprint of Greenwood’s Picture of Hull, dated 1835 and including 70 illustrations (drawings/engravings). On page 79 in an illustration of the second parish church to be built in Sculcoates village (see above).
To the east of the chancel a ship’s mast is shown confirming the site as being beside the west bank of the River Hull (see earlier Sculcoates blog showing the map of 1691). The churchyard surviving today at the junction of Air Street and Wincolmlee is that shown to the south of the church in the illustration. The architectural details shown suggest that this was a church of one single building programme and records show that this was the case as the medieval church building (see 1691 map) was in such a bad state of decay by the mid 18th century that it was demolished and the replacement church, built on the same site and re-using some materials, was built in 1760-’61.
Greenwood’s description (text) states that this Georgian church ‘consists of a nave and aisles, chancel and a neat tower at the west end’. It appears from the illustration that the nave and aisles had a continuous-pitch roof. The tall lancet windows in the south aisles and those in the west tower show basic Y tracery and a moulding in relief. The large quoin stones at the corners of the west tower and south aisle may well have been salvaged from the earlier building. The battlements, or castellation, of the south aisle, tower and south porch were simply fashionable embellishments of the day. Whether it is a mechanical clock shown on the south wall of the tower is not clear, for the time this was perfectly possible and would have been viewed as a parish asset.
(To be continued).