Churches of the British Isles

Also on Holderness Road was the Pentecostal Mission in 1908-10, replaced by the Gospel Mission Room in 1910-11, renamed Hull City Mission Room in 1911-20. The Jehovah's Witnesses had halls in 1916-19, 1940-41, 1941-46, and 1958. The Christian Assembly Hall was used in 1926-30. The Spiritualist Temple of Truth was used in 1933-39 and 1947. The Holiness Meeting Room was used in 1936-54 and the Salvation Army Holderness Road in 1942-54.

Portobello Methodist Church is a modest red brick building on the southern side of Holderness Road, opposite Hurley Close in the Sutton Ings district of eastern Hull, moving in the direction of the River Humber from Summergang. The church was built by the Primitive Methodists in 1906, with 610 sittings. It was designed by Gelder and Kitchen, and was built at a cost of £4,500. Unlike a great many Primitive Methodist churches, it survived the Methodist union in 1932.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is on the northern side of Holderness Road, just east of Hurley Close in Sutton Ings. After meeting in existing premises, certainly by 1870-1872 when they were noted by the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, the Latter-Day Saints built their own church here in 1934. This building was subsequently replaced by the present well-regarded one in 1956. By 2010 there was another meeting on Springfield Way.

Kingston Wesley Methodist Church & Community Centre is on the southern side of Holderness Road, opposite Ellesmere Avenue in Sutton Ings. The first Kingston Chapel was in Witham, on the eastern edge of central Hull. Founded in 1841, it was the largest Methodist chapel in the town. It was demolished about 1912 with some fittings being moved to the present chapel in Sutton Ings, which was registered in 1913 and renamed Kingston Wesley after the lost chapel.

St Michael & All Angels Sutton Ings is at the south-west corner of Holderness Road and Marfleet Lane. A temporary church was dedicated in 1913. The present church was consecrated, gaining a district from the parishes of Drypool and Sutton. Also in the district was St Saviour Stoneferry Road. A temporary building opened in 1898 and the permanent church was consecrated in 1903. The parish was combined with St Mark in 1957 and the church demolished in 1981.

St Philip Bilton Grange sits inside of the junction between Amethyst Road and Barham Road on the Bilton Grange Estate in Marfleet. It was dedicated in 1952 as a chapel-of-ease after Hull's boundaries were extended to include all of the estate. It was built partially with funds from the war-damaged church of St Philip Sculcoates (see links) while also inheriting its dedication. It was designed by H R Spencer, and contains some of the furnishings and plate from the old church.

St Bede's Catholic Church Bilton Grange stands inside the junction of Staveley Road and Hopewell Road. The church was registered in 1953. Recusancy seems to have been weak in Hull in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, apparently confined to a handful of merchant families, but following the opening of St Charles Borromeo in 1829 three more churches were subsequently built in the late nineteenth century, and a further ten in the twentieth century.

St George Marfleet stands well back from the eastern side of Marfleet Lane, just below the junction with Staverley Road in Marfleet, part of the Sutton Trust Estate of Carden Avenue. This dual-purpose church was dedicated in 1938 as a chapel-of-ease to Marfleet's parish church of St Giles (see links), one of three such chapels. By 2010 the church had been declared redundant, although Sunday services were still being held in an adjoining building.

Preston Road Methodist Church stands at the north-east corner of Preston Road and Bilton Grove in Marfleet. A church was registered for this site in 1934, but it seems that may have been a temporary building. The present church was registered in 1937 and offered 300 sittings. It was designed by Gelder and Kitchen, and was built at a cost of £5,500. By 2008 it appeared to have been closed down, although nothing official regarding its fate can be found.

Nine photos on this page kindly contributed by Colin Hinson, and one photo copyright © Ian S, and reused under a cc licence.