Author name: Richard Clarke

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

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