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Lost Churches and Chapels in the Old Town and Central Hull. |
| 19. QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE. St. John the Evangelist Anglican church. This church, consecrated in 1792 and opened in 1793, was built as a chapel-of-ease to Holy Trinity to serve the expanding population to the west of the Old Town in the district called Myton. The church, the first post-Reformation Anglican church to appear in Hull, was built by the evangelical clergyman Revd. Thomas Dykes (he spelt his name Dikes) using his own fortune. It was partly financed by pew rents and payments for the use of over 70 burial vaults under the church. A chancel and west tower were added in 1803. The chancel was remodelled by Cuthbert Brodrick in 1863 and in 1874 a plan was produced by Christopher Wray, architect of the Dock Offices opposite, to convert the church into a High Renaissance building. The latter was not carried out. It had seating for 1,670 in 1881 and was the largest Anglican church in Hull. The church was assigned its own district in 1868 and closed in 1917, when it was bought by T.R. Ferens and presented to Hull Corporation so that an art gallery might be built on the site. The building was demolished when the site was cleared to build the Ferens Art Gallery, construction of which began in 1924. [The Lost Churches and Chapels of Hull] |
The Church of St. John the Evangelist is located at OS Grid Ref. TA0963928716
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