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The second detached burial ground for the parish of Holy Trinity, Hull (second to Castle St. site s.p.b.) was sited just north of Hessle Rd. and west of St. George’s Rd. at its southern end. This was then known as Division Rd. Cemetery as it was immediately west of that road. It had a long […]

Castle St. graveyard was a detached burial ground for the parish of Holy Trinity, Hull from 1783 to 1861. Later in its life as a functioning burial ground it stood near Railway Dock immediately west of which was the initial terminus of the Hull-Selby Railway, before Paragon Station was built in 1848. The burial ground

Immediately west of Hull Minster is Trinity Square, an area much-changed before and during 2017, Hull’s initial City of Culture year. Now that all the re-surfacing is complete and the various displays across 2017 gone the area is open-plan paved with some public seating around the perimeter and incorporating an ingenious device whereby eight shallow pools of

On one of the coldest days of the recent very cold weather in March went to have a look inside Hull Minster now all the internal work has been completed. Given the weather on stepping inside the west door the most immediately impressive feature was the under-floor heating, truly welcoming. Three factors re Holy Trinity

Tournai ‘marble’ (s.p.b.) is not the only sedimentary limestone rock masquerading, by the skill of stonemasons, as a metamorphic rock (true marble, often imported from quarries in Italy). Purbeck ‘marble’ is a limestone rock quarried on the ‘Isle’ of Purbeck on the south coast in Dorset(shire), this rock also ‘takes a polish’ and was often

So the support by the Churches Conservation Trust for the proposals of the Taylor Review (s.p.b.) is very encouraging. It heralds a debate on the future of these 16000+ historic buildings from a secular perspective without in any way diminishing their ongoing religious function. Let’s hope the debate can remain measured and sensible. Recently asked by the