Author name: Richard Clarke

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 […]

As regards the interior of the Georgian St. Mary’s Sculcoates (s.p.b.) Greenwood,1835, (s.p.b.) describes the interior of the church as ‘neat’, this a common impression on the interior of Georgian churches. He writes of its two four-bay arcades dividing nave from aisles, the pulpit and desks ‘grouped in the centre of the nave’ (typical of

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

The photo above shows the ‘sylvan glen’ that is/was Castle Street d.b.g. Before getting onto to some more general points about Sculcoates (see blog 5/4/20) I list a few extracts from the Parks and Burials Committee minutes relevant to Trippett disused burial grounds (see previous blogs); 1885 – ‘big lads’ throwing stones from Trippett St.

One aspect of the relatively small area called Trippett (s.p.b.) that I know something of is that between 1775 and 1855 it was the site of St. Mary Lowgate’s detached burial ground. After 1855 deceased parishioners would have been buried in Hull’s General Cemetery, opened 1847, although as this was a private/commercial cemetery it would

One interesting aspect of the parish plan of Sculcoates dated 1691 (see above and s.p.b.) is the field pattern, the rectangular fields evidencing enclosure. As this was prior to the onset of Parliamentary Enclosure the parish land must have been enclosed by private agreement. In other parishes where this happened in north Lincs. and in