Churches of the British Isles

St John Bransholme lies on the eastern side of Wawne Road, just south of the junction with Minehead Road. It was built in 1972 to cater for new residences being built on the outer, north-eastern edge of Hull. The architect was George Pace (1915-1975), a graduate from the school of Pugin and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. During his early years he developed a close working relationship with the dean of York Minster, gaining much work on cathedrals and churches.

Bransholme Methodist Church is at the north-east corner of Goodhart Road, overlooking a long car park to its south and Littleham Close to the east in Bransholme. The church was formed around 1980 in a house on the estate, before moving to its present multi-purpose building. It shares its minister with its sister church, Sutton Methodist Church (below), although it is vastly different in terms of its congregation size and mix, its buildings and the community it serves.

St Mary Queen of Martyrs Catholic Church is on the southern side of Nidderdale where it meets Holwell Road in Bransholme. It is the successor to the Catholic Church of St Mary on Wilton Street (school chapel 1856, church 1890-1891 by Smith, Brodrick and Lowther). The new church was built in 1976 by architect J Reid and the Wilton Street church was demolished in 1982. The Convent of the Daughters of Charity lies nearby, at 36 Cosford Garth in Bransholme.

The Church of St James the Great Sutton lies on the northern side of Church Street, overlooking College Street on its eastern end in Sutton-on-Hull, to the east of Hull itself. The church was first mentioned about 1160 when it was described as a dependent chapel of Wawne church. It consists of chancel, modern vestry, nave with aisles of four bays, engaged west tower, and south porch. The aisles and tower are of fourteenth and fifteenth century brickwork.

In 1346 Sir John de Sutton founded a college at Sutton and in the following year the chapel of Sutton was appropriated for the purpose. It would seem that the church was rebuilt afterwards, and therefore needed to be reconsecrated. It could be that the chancel was only 'modernised' by the insertion of new windows and the building of buttresses to prevent bulging. In 1552 there were two bells, and the three bells of 1795 were recast in 1890, with three more being added.

Sutton Methodist Church stands at the south-west corner of Church Street and Potterill Lane in Sutton-on-Hull. A Wesleyan chapel was apparently built in Sutton about 1812, while the present church replaced it on a different site in 1859 and still maintains much of its original design and fittings, including a traditional high pulpit, balcony, wooden pews and pipe organ. In 1970 gained a new church hall, and in the 1990s the 'old village school' at the rear was renovated.

St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church is at the north-west corner of the Wembley Park Avenue and Neasden Close junction, Sutton-on-Hull. The Anlaby Road 'Anchor House' hostel, began in 1931, was conducted successively on Lee Smith Street (built on the site of Lee Smith Street Lutheran Mission) and Charles Street. The church of St Francis began in the Lee Smith Street building in 1964. The Sutton parish was established in 1973, gaining its present building in 1997.

St Mark's Church Sutton Ings stands on the southern side of Bellfield Avenue, opposite Middlesex Road in Sutton Ings. The original church was built in the manufacturing district known as the 'Groves', part of Sutton. It was erected in 1843 in the Early English style, in red brick with stone dressings. It was badly damaged during the war, closed in 1948, and was demolished in 1958-1959. The present 'economy' building is a modern recreation of the former parish.

East Hull United Reformed Church is at the north-west corner of the James Reckitt Avenue and Clifford Avenue junction in Sutton Ings. Congregationalists opened in a temporary building on the corner of Summergangs Road after their Williamson Street Chapel had closed in 1919. It later moved to Reckitt Garden Village Hall and, after that suffered war damage, to Westcott Street Chapel (in 1944). This was replaced by Clifford Avenue in 1953, to a design by A P Taylor.

Seven photos on this page kindly contributed by Colin Hinson, one by Richard Hutton via the 'History Files: Churches of the British Isles' Flickr group, and two photos copyright © Ian S, and reused under a cc licence.