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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Overview
- 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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- 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
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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)
GV II
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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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