CHAPEL AT HULL TRINITY HOUSE AND STATUE OUTSIDE EAST FRONT

CHAPEL AT HULL TRINITY HOUSE AND STATUE OUTSIDE EAST FRONT, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297026
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL AT HULL TRINITY HOUSE AND STATUE OUTSIDE EAST FRONT
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL AT HULL TRINITY HOUSE AND STATUE OUTSIDE EAST FRONT, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297026
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL AT HULL TRINITY HOUSE AND STATUE OUTSIDE EAST FRONT
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL AT HULL TRINITY HOUSE AND STATUE OUTSIDE EAST FRONT, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL AT HULL TRINITY HOUSE AND STATUE OUTSIDE EAST FRONT, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 09820 28637

Details

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0928NE PRINCE'S DOCK STREET 680-1/22/308 (East side (off)) 13/10/52 Chapel at Hull Trinity House and statue outside east front (Formerly Listed as: PRINCE'S DOCK STREET (OFF) Chapel of Trinity House)

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Chapel. Dated 1842. By HF Lockwood. Painted stucco with hipped slate roof. Classical revival style. Plinth, string course, moulded cornice and blocking. Rusticated east front has 4 giant Greek pilasters, entablature and pediment. Central stained-glass window flanked by 8-panel double doors with overlights, all with pilastered surrounds and cornices. In front, a large sculpture of Oceanus reclining, 1828 by Thomas Earle. This was removed from the Trinity Almshouses and resited here in 1934. West front has rusticated ground floor and a central corniced portico with paired Greek pilasters flanking a pilastered doorcase with a pair of 8-panel doors and overlight. Above, a Diocletian window with moulded surround and keystone. INTERIOR has a square central space with Corinthian pilasters, dentillated cornice and ribbed groin vault, with a Diocletian window to north and south, each with a stained-glass coat of arms. To east, a coffered apse framed by Corinthian pilasters, with a stained-glass east window, 1840, by M Stangroom, flanked by Corinthian columns. On either side, a moulded doorcase and cornice ornamented with seahorses, with a curved 6-panel door. At the west end, a coffered barrel vault with Diocletian window, flanked by 2 flat ceilings on Corinthian square columns. Under the vault, a panelled wooden gallery with 2 wooden columns. On either side, a 12-pane sash. At the rear, a pair of 6-panel doors. Western entrance lobby has a wooden cantilever stair with winders and cast-iron lotus balustrade. Moulded panelled doors. Fittings include an altar table from the former chapel c1770, with a polygonal marble slab supported by a gilt eagle, by Sir William Chambers. Double deck square oak pulpit. early C19 organ. C20 stalls with shaped armrests. Box pews. Monuments include a facsimile of the Ferres Monument from Holy Trinity (qv), and a tablet. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: York and The East Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 273; Harvey A S: The Trinity House of Kingston Upon Hull: Hull: 1950-).

Listing NGR: TA0982028637

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 387745
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Harvey, A S, The Trinity House of Kingston Upon Hull, (1950)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 273

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.