Church Of St Mary

Church of St Mary, Kingston upon Hull

Parish church built 1916 to around 1920, incorporating columns from an earlier church of around 1760. Designed by Temple Moore. The building is constructed in brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with an external gable stack.

The church comprises a nave and chancel with clerestories, south-east chapel, south aisle, north aisle, west porch, north chapel, vestry, and meeting room. The exterior features a plinth and string course, with coped west gables to the nave and north chapel. Windows are predominantly flat-headed with stone mullions.

The chancel's east end has a three-light segment-headed window with tracery. The south side has a small flat-headed window to the east, with six flat-headed two-light mullioned clerestory windows above. The north side displays two tall flat-headed two-light mullioned windows to the east, with two smaller clerestory windows above. The nave has four unequally spaced two-light mullioned windows on either side. The west end contains a four-light pointed-arched window with Decorated tracery and hoodmould.

The south-east chapel of St Patrick has five buttresses and four single-light windows, with a similar flat-headed three-light window at its east end. The south aisle has four three-light mullioned windows. The north aisle features to the east a chapel with a three-light mullioned window on each floor, a single lancet at the west end, and a shallow gabled porch with a four-panel double door with chamfered surround.

The north chapel of St Francis has at its east end a Decorated triple lancet. The west end has a larger triple lancet with hoodmould and a small gabled porch with a plain pointed-arched door. The north side displays three three-light mullioned windows. The hipped vestry has a door to the west and a two-light wood-framed window to the left. The meeting room to the east has three two-light windows on its east side.

Interior: Walls are rendered with ashlar piers. The chancel has a plain arch containing the rood and a low pitched waggon roof with wooden wall shaft and struts. The north side has two round arches with two similar arches above. To the east is a single window with two windows above. The east end contains a tall panelled wooden reredos and painted panel with a three-light window above. The south side has to the east a pointed arch and flat-headed window, with two round arches to the west flanking a lozenge-section central pier with a traceried wooden screen of 1934 above. Six clerestory windows light the south side.

The nave has three-bay arcades with broad arches (the south-west arch blocked) and square piers without capitals. A segmental waggon roof with queen post truss and struts covers the space. Four clerestory windows light either side, with a three-bay blind arcade at the west end and above, a four-light lancet with sill band.

The south-east chapel has wood-panelled walls and reredos, a suspended altar canopy, and lean-to roof. Its east end has a stained-glass window, and the south side has a pointed piscina and four windows with patterned stained-glass. The west end has a plain pointed arch with a round-arched squint in the left pier and a traceried wooden screen of 1934.

The south aisle has a lean-to roof with central strutted king post, a low four-bay blind arcade with round arches on the south side, and four three-light windows. A pointed arch containing a doorway is at the west end. The north aisle has a similar roof and west end arrangement, with a three-bay arcade of round arches and square piers on the north side (the eastern pier with a figure on a bracket). The east end has a round arch with imposts and a round-arched squint to the right. A chapel at the east end has a flat ceiling with strutted wall posts, a three-light window at the east end, and an elliptical-arched door to the north.

The north chapel has a painted interior with four-bay round-arched arcades with Doric columns. A queen post roof with wall shafts and struts lights the space. The east end has a painted wooden reredos and stained-glass window. The west end has a traceried wooden screen and central door with wooden internal porch, with a triple lancet above. The north side has to the west two low round arches, then a blank bay and door, with three windows above.

Fittings include a gadrooned oval granite font of the mid 18th century on a square ashlar base, with fluted ogee-domed brass cover and finial bearing an inscription of 1889. A panelled square wooden pulpit and steps and two wooden lecterns, all 19th century, are present. Wooden benches with shaped ends are used for seating. The south-east chapel contains benches with shaped scrolled ends by Thompson. The north chapel retains an 18th-century brass chandelier.

Memorials include a marble and slate obelisk tablet of 1761 with inscription in shorthand and a similar obelisk tablet of 1763. A marble tablet with angel dates to 1843, and a larger marble tablet with half-size female figure to 1860. Four marble and slate tablets from the early and mid 19th century are also present.