Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA03SE SCULCOATES LANE
680-1/4/339 (South side)
Church of St Mary
II
Parish church. 1916-c1920, incorporating columns from a church
of c1760. By Temple Moore. Brick with ashlar dressings and
slate roofs with an external gable stack. Plinth, string
course, coped west gables to nave and north chapel. Windows
are mainly flat-headed with stone mullions.
Nave and chancel with clerestories, south-east chapel, south
aisle, north aisle and west porch, north chapel, vestry,
meeting room.
Chancel east end has a 3-light segment-headed window with
tracery. To south, a small flat-headed window to east and
above, 6 flat-headed 2-light mullioned clerestorey windows.
North side has to east 2 tall flat-headed 2-light mullioned
windows and above, 2 smaller clerestorey windows.
Nave has on either side 4 unequally spaced 2-light mullioned
windows. West end has a 4-light pointed-arched window with
Decorated tracery and hoodmould. South-east chapel of St
Patrick has 5 buttresses and 4 single-light windows. East end
has a similar flat-headed 3-light window. South aisle has four
3-light mullioned windows.
North aisle has to east a chapel with a 3-light mullioned
window on each floor. At the west end a single lancet and to
north a shallow gabled porch with a 4-panel double door with
chamfered surround.
North chapel of St Francis has to east a Decorated triple
lancet. West end has a larger triple lancet with hoodmould,
and a small gabled porch with plain pointed-arched door. North
side has three 3-light mullioned windows.
Hipped vestry has to west a door to right and a 2-light
wood-framed window to left. Meeting room, to east, has to east
three 2-light windows.
INTERIOR: rendered, ashlar piers. Chancel has plain arch
containing rood, and low pitched waggon roof with wooden wall
shaft and struts. North side has 2 round arches and above, 2
similar arches. To east, a single window and above, 2 windows.
East end has a tall panelled wooden reredos and painted panel.
3-light window above. South side has to east a pointed arch
and a flat-headed window. To west, 2 round arches with
lozenge-section central pier and traceried wooden screen,
1934. Above, 6 clerestorey windows.
Nave has 3-bay arcades with broad arches, the south-west arch
blocked, and square piers without capitals. Segmental waggon
roof with queen post truss and struts. On either side, 4
clerestorey windows. West end has a 3-bay blind arcade and
above, a 4-light lancet with sill band.
South-east chapel has wood-panelled walls and reredos,
suspended altar canopy, and lean-to roof. East end has a
stained-glass window, and south side has a pointed piscina and
4 windows with patterned stained-glass. West end has a plain
pointed arch with a round-arched squint in the left pier, and
a traceried wooden screen, 1934. North side has figure niche
in central pier.
South aisle has a lean-to roof with central strutted king
post. South side has a low 4-bay blind arcade with round
arches, and four 3-light windows. West end has a pointed arch
containing a doorway.
North aisle has similar roof and west end. North side has a
3-bay arcade with round arches and square piers, the east one
with a figure on a bracket. East end has a round arch with
imposts and a round-arched squint to right. Chapel at east end
has flat ceiling with strutted wall posts. East end has a
3-light window, and north side has, to east, an
elliptical-arched door.
North chapel has painted interior with 4-bay round-arched
arcades with Doric columns. Queen post roof with wall shafts
and struts. East end has painted wooden reredos and
stained-glass window. West end has a traceried wooden screen
and a central door with wooden internal porch. Above it, a
triple lancet. North side has to west 2 low round arches, then
a blank bay, then a door. Above, 3 windows.
FITTINGS include a gadrooned oval granite font, mid C18, on
square ashlar base, with fluted ogee-domed brass cover and
finial, with inscription 1889. Panelled square wooden pulpit
and steps, and 2 wooden lecterns, all C19. Wooden benches with
shaped ends. South-east chapel has benches with shaped
scrolled ends by Thompson. North chapel has C18 brass
chandelier.
MEMORIALS include a marble and slate obelisk tablet, 1761,
with inscription in shorthand, and similar obelisk tablet,
1763. Marble tablet with angel, 1843, and larger marble tablet
with half-size female figure, 1860. 4 marble and slate
tablets, early and mid C19.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: York and The East
Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 283).
Listing NGR: TA0923030735
