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 until mid 1920s and see previous photo), I think it is sometimes open during national Heritage Week in September and is, according to a sign on the churchyard gate, open two afternoons per week, although because of Covid 19 ‘lockdown’ not so at the moment.
A number of fixtures and fittings from the Georgian church were re-sited in the current church but David Neave – Buildings of England, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (2005, 512) – makes no mention of the elaborate font described by Greenwood (s.p.b.). I wonder what happened to it.
The current St. Mary’s, Sculcoates was designed by the famous Temple Moore but has no tower as was originally intended, this probably an economy as after the Great War there was a serious shortage of building materials resulting in those available being very expensive. Incidentally, the tower of the Georgian church was not demolished with the rest of the church in 1916 but survived to the 1960s, this a story replicated at St. Peter’s church, Drypool (see photo and text Neave, D. Lost churches and chapels of Hull (Hutton Press, 1991, 56-57).
I need to investigate to see if the monument to Dr. Alderson’s wife (s.p.b.) survives in the churchyard of the Georgian church.
(to be continued)