Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

The place: SCULCOATES.     Church dedication: SAINT MARY.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 1,010 acres. Harthill wapentake. Hunsley Beacon. -Population, 13,468 *1; Church-room, 600; Net value, £295. -The Archbishop of York held in Sculcoates two carucates of land in demesne.

This Church was an ancient Rectory, belonging to the patronage of the Lords Gray of Rotherfeld, till that being given to the house of the Carthusians of Saint Michael of Hull, it was appropriated thereto, and a Vicarage ordained therein, 16th July 1381.

Patron, the Lord Chancellor.

Valued in the King's books, at £5. 6s. 8d. per annum ; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. pages 241. 348, it is stated as follows : " Drypool and Sculcotts Chapels to be made a parish. No minister for four years and a half. Sculcoates contains only eight or nine families. To be united with Newland, and made a parish ; the houses of Hull Beck to be joined, and the Church to be built near Newlands."

A brief was granted in 1759 for rebuilding this Church; and on the 1st May 1760, a faculty was granted to rebuild and enlarge the Church, and dispose of the seats therein.

On the 23rd July 1713, and 2nd September 1817, additional burial-grounds were consecrated.

Augmented in 1741, with £200; in 1771, with £200; and in 1784, with £200 -all by lot.

An Act was passed 4th Geo. III. for confirming the inclosure.

No glebe house.

The Register Books commence in 1576.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Hull.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1327. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 56. Burton's Monasticon, page 316. Tickell's Hull, page 895. Thompson's Swine, page 200.

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Notes:
*1 460 mariners, belonging to registered vessels, are excluded from the return of Population.