The updated version of this history is available as a booklet from All Saints' Church.

The Present Church and its Origins
 
THE PRESENT CHURCH OF NORTH FERRIBY was designed by John Loughborough Pearson, R.A. (1817-1897), and was completed in 1848. Pearson is considered one of the best Church architects of the 19th century. He began his work with a number of churches in the East Riding. Later he designed Truro Cathedral.

The church is in the Geometrical style of the later 13th century. A quantity of stone from the previous church is used, obvious examples being the lower stones of the six pillars, and the arches of the north aisle.

The roof-work is particularly good, possibly using some timber from the previous church.

The church is 108 feet long overall, and the octagonal broach spire is 165 feet high.

Turning left on entering the church, you will see the board on the north wall which bears the incumbents' names, executed by Thompson's of Kilburn. A revised list hangs by the window which records 65 names over seven and a half centuries. The Domesday Book entry for North Ferriby tells us that in 1086 "A Priest is there and a Church "

"North Ferriby" is a Danish name -Ferja bi: place by a ferry. The first wave of Danes settled about 876. They settled in groups under command of their leaders, and each ship set up a village. The map shows a constellation of "bys" from Risby in the north through Skidby, Willerby, Anlaby, and Tranby to Ferriby, and with Wauldby to the north-west. The group are joined to the Humber at Ferriby, are linked by ferry to South Ferriby, which in turn begins a string of "bys" in Lincolnshire. North Ferriby would have been the chief Danish settlement of the area.

By about 900 Danes and Saxons had grown into one people. In any case Danes would have needed Saxon wives from Hessle, Kirk Ella, Melton and Welton. Many churches were built in the East Riding about 900. Ferriby was probably one of them, built in wood. A later wave of Danes after the conquest sailed up the Humber, and Ferriby's church was burnt.

Towards the end of the 13th century the living was in the hands of the de Vescy family of Broomfleet. RICHARD DE VESCY was appointed Rector, but Archbishop Wickwane contested this on the grounds of pluralism. WILLIAM DE CLYF was appointed to replace him, but Richard de Vescy and his associates resisted Clyf by force. De Vescy was denounced and excommunicated, but was only removed by the forces of the King.

THE PRIORY

The de Vescy family also founded North Ferriby Priory in 1152, and the history of the village and church were closely connected with the Priory until the Reformation. The Priory belonged at first to a rare order, and were known as "The Prior and Brethren of the House of the Lord's Temple of Jerusalem". No other Priory in England was known to belong to this order. The Temple of the Lord was a church in Jerusalem distinct from the Temple of Solomon to which the Knights Templar were attached. This Temple was an abbey served by a community of Austin Friars, and North Ferriby was a cell to this abbey. From 1315 the Rector of North Ferriby was appointed by the Prior and Brethren of the Priory. Their first choice WILLIAM DE MOINGE, seemed an unfortunate one: he was twice summoned for non-residence, owed the King 200 marks, and finally was charged with trespass and poaching! He was only in sub-deacon's orders.

There follows a group of influential Rectors who held many benefices at once. They were mainly connected with Archbishop Melton from Melton.

From 1333 the Church of North Ferriby was appropriated to the Priory. The Priory appointed a Priest to act for them, as their Vicar or representative. James Torre of the 18th century, writes:

"There was to be a perpetual vicar in this church presentable by the Prior and brethren of the Order of the Templars thereof, who should personally reside in the church, having the government of the parishioners and exercising cure of their souls. And he is to cause the church to be laudably served in divine offices. In which respect he shall have for the portion of his vicarage and sustentation twenty marks sterling a year paid to him in quarterly instalments by the Prior and brethren out of the fruits and profits of the church. Also he shall have for his habitation a third part of the area of the mansion of the rectory. The said Prior and brethren bearing all burdens ordinary and extraordinary of the church, so that the vicar shall be bound for none of them. Only that he shall serve the church by himself or by a sufficient substitute, and at his own costs find one chaplain to celebrate thrice a week in the chapel of Swanland, and shall find and sustain that chantry as the rector of the church of North Ferriby was heretofore accustomed to do. "

"On 16th May, 1348, licence was granted to the Prior and convent of North Ferriby to present always one of their own Canons to the Vicarage".

Some of the Vicars later became Priors and appear on the second list. The Priors' list shows two Priors were appointed in 1349, the year of the Black Death. JOHN DE PRESTON was appointed only 11 days after JOHN DE BEVERLEY. From 1532 there was a group of Priors who served short terms only. The writing was on the wall for all small houses like Ferriby, and the Brethren took it in turns to be Prior, and then stood down. In fact JOHN BAWDEWYNNE was twice appointed. This ensured they would all receive a Prior's pension! John Bawdewynne received £5 6s. 8d. and THOMAS BURGH £7 6s. Od. per annum.

The Priory was suppressed in 1536 with the cryptic citation: under "Superstitio" -"hic colitur Sanctus Gatianus". No such saint is known.

THE REFORMATION

The Reformation began badly in Ferriby. ROBERT LANGRYG, appointed by Henry VIII, remained through the changes of Edward VI and Queen Mary, but was non-resident from 1560 soon after the accession of Elizabeth I. GILES BAYNES became Sequestrator or confiscator of the property of the Vicarage where he resided from 1561. After Langryg's death, a Welshman, JOHN MORGAN, was instituted on Christmas Eve 1569. In the Borthwick Institute, York, is

"The Accompte of Gyles Baines, clerke Sequestrator of the Parishe on the Townshipe of North Ferribye for ix yeares ended the xvith daie of January 1569". It runs for five pages. Probably Baines remained as Curate but Morgan took advantage of him. In 1573 Morgan was deprived for non-residence, and Baines became Vicar, which he remained until he died in 1589.

The Register records "The burrial of GILES BAINES the XIIIIth day of Julie".

THE COMMONWEALTH

During the Commonwealth JAMES ROBARTS or ROBERTS was Vicar. He was in deacon's orders only. In 1636 and 1639 he was called to account for various acts of non-conformity. It was said of him that he was "a Frenchman borne, received his degree in Scotland, whence he received his opinions I know not". But he was Vicar for nearly 20 years.

JOHN RYTHER or RIDER was another Commonwealth Vicar. He lived at Brough. In 1662 he was deprived for non-conformity, but he continued to preach at his house at Brough until the Five Mile Act of 1666. Two years later he founded a Congregational Church at Allerton. He was imprisoned in York Castle for illegal preaching. In 1669 he went to Wapping, London, and became popular with sailors who called him "The Seaman's Preacher", and protected him from arrest. He published several books and collections of sermons.

EARLY EVANGELICALS

There was no resident Vicar after James Roberts in 1654 until 1847. From 1663 to 1766 Vicars of Kirk Ella held Ferriby as a curacy. In 1766 JOSEPH MILNER came to be resident Curate, and held this office for nearly 20 years. He was also Lecturer of Holy Trinity, Hull, and Headmaster of Hull Grammar School for 30 years. He became Vicar of Ferriby in 1786 -appointed by a former pupil, William Wilberforce. In 1770 Joseph Milner became a convert to "religious enthusiasm", as Methodism was called. The Countess of Huntingdon visited Hull in 1769, and claimed to have influenced Milner. His high reputation collapsed. He became very unpopular with the many Hull merchants who had country seats at Ferriby. When he preached at Holy Trinity on Sunday afternoons, the well-bred stayed at home: but the great Church was filled with the poor. Drunkards and debauchees were reformed, and numbers asked "What must we do to be saved?"

He endured ten years of ostracism before he became deeply respected once more. His preaching had a great effect on the morals of Hull. One of his hearers who was saved was John King, later to be Vicar of Christ Church, Hull. He described Milner as a "Boanerges in the pulpit, his harsh West Riding voice as the rolling thunder in the tars of sinners".

He and his brother Isaac were primarily responsible for rousing William Wilberforce's concern over slavery. In 1797, Hull Corporation appointed Joseph Milner as Vicar of Holy Trinity, Hull. He went to York to be instituted, but he caught a cold. In a few weeks he had died. His monument can be found in Holy Trinity.

He was a prolific author. He published over 800 sermons. But he is chiefly noted for his "History of the Church of Christ". Volume I appeared in 1793. His brother Isaac, and JOHN SCOTT (Vicar of Ferriby 1801-1834) completed it.

Joseph Milner influenced many young men to be ordained. But his concern was wide: he was instrumental in sending three pioneer Missionaries:

DAVID BROWN of Driffield, who went to Bengal In 1786 to become a well-known evangelical minister,

RICHARD JOHNSON of Welton, who sailed with the first convicts to Botany Bay in 1786 as their chaplain, and later became the first minister of the new colony.

SAMUEL MARSDEN of the West Riding who sailed to New Zealand in 1793 to begin an almost single-handed conversion of the Maori.

THOMAS DYKES (Vicar 1834-1847) visited Joseph Milner in Hull for advice on his career. As a result, he resolved to enter the Ministry. Soon after his ordination, he inherited a fortune, which he resolved to use for God's glory, He began by building St. John's Church, Hull in 1790, until when Hull had only Holy Trinity, St. Mary's, Lowgate, and St. Mary's Sculcoates. He was also instrumental in starting Christ Church, St. James, The Mariners' Church, St. Stephen's and St. Luke's. He was Perpetual Curate of St. John's, and Master of the Charterhouse, Hull, where a monument has been erected to his memory, His grandson, John Bacchus Dykes, is well-known as a composer of many of our hymn tunes.

JOHN SCOTT (Vicar 1801-1834) was son of the author of a widely used Bible Commentary. He, too, was Lecturer of Holy Trinity and Headmaster of HuIl Grammar School for the same period. In addition, he became Vicar of St. Mary's Lowgate in 1816 until his death in 1834. His memorial is over the doorway in St. Mary's, where his son JOHN SCOTT succeeded him as Vicar.
CONTENTS OF THE PRESENT CHURCH

The Coffin Stone to the left of the Pulpit is said to have been made for a Prior of North Ferriby. It is dated about the thirteenth century, and is a well-preserved example. Its heraldic cross is the "cross patonel", the device of the de Vesci family of Broomfleet, founders of North Ferriby Priory. It was also Archbishop Melton's device for his coat of arms. There is another Stone outside in the north-east comer of the Nave and Porch, together with some fragments.

The Walnut Chairs at the two Clergy Desks date from the time of Charles II, and were the gift of George Beers Lambert. One is Dutch and the other English.

The East Window dates from the Church's building in 1848, and is probably by William Wailes of Newcastle. It is given: "In memory of Ralph Turner Esq. of this Parish died April231823 aged 70, and of Mary Ann his wife died September 9 1846 aged 77, by four of their children".

From left to right the main windows show:

The Turner family were occupiers of Ferriby House. and owners of the Manor of Ferriby. They were considerable benefactors of the Church. The family vault is in the Churchyard near the Porch.

THE LILLINGSTON MONUMENT

This fine monument consists of an altar-tomb supporting two kneeling life-size effigies. A man in armour wearing a wig points with his truncheon (now broken) up to heaven, with his lady beside him with hands clasped. It is probably the work of Edward Stanton (1681-1734).

Luke Lillingston was the son of Col. Henry Lillingston in the English Army in Holland with General Monk. Born about 1653 he became Ensign in 1673. He came to England with William III and was promoted Lieut. Colonel. In 1695 he commanded a unit in a combined operation with the Navy in the West Indies, where he became Brigadier-General. The operation was not a success, and the Commodore involved put the blame on Lillingston.

Lillingston saw William III who not only exonerated him, but granted him £200 per annum! .In 1705 he raised the Regiment which was to become the 1st Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment. The Regiment went to the West Indies under another C.O., leaving Lillingston to recruit. His successor was involved in quarrels with the Governor, so the Government ordered Lillingston to rejoin his Regiment. Thereupon he advertised his new and attractive mansion, Ferriby Grange, in the London Gazette. "Owing to peremptory orders, his mansion of 6 rooms on a floor would be sold for a pennyworth". In the end he did not go.

After the death of his wife Elizabeth in 1699, he married Catherine, widow of Col. Towey and daughter of Col. Hassell of Kirby Grindalythe, but he had no male issue from either marriage. On his death in 1713, the estate passed to a nephew, Luke Bowden, who took the name of Lillingston Lillingston.

His son Luke, born 1717/18, was eventually to set up the North Ferriby School Foundation by his will of 1773, for the instruction of twelve children in reading, writing and accompts.

Tickell records that the previous Church contained:

"And on a neat alter monument, near the former, is the following encomium: "To the memory of Lillingston Lillingston, Esq. and his wife Elizabeth of Ferriby, interred near this place, who recommended the religion they professed by its uniform excellence of their conduct; theiir faith was approved by their obedience, their excellent principals by correspondent morals; the life they led in these times would have done them honour in the purest. Devout, retired, mortified, yet ever easy, pleased, cheerful; concurring only by excelling; possessing only to distribute; glad to discover what to recommend in others; overlooking no worth but their own -such they lived, consistent throughout, wholly intent on preparing for a better world. Death called them to it. Here their bodies rest, in a sure hope of a joyful resurrection through the merits of their blessed redeemer.

"Reader,

You have here no detail of their descent and alliances; this monument is raised to no worth they borrowed; but to that alone which will be in them rewarded, and should by you be imitated". "This monument was erected to their memory, in tl!e year 1759, by their son Luke Lillingston, Esq. as a testimony of his filial duty and affection".

CHIPPENDALE TYPE ANTIQUE CHAIR

The chair .next to the monument is of the same period as the later Luke Lillington. Possibly it came from his home at Ferriby Grange. It was usual for the "Big House" to lend a chair for the visit of a Bishop to the Church. One authority attributes this to Manwaring, a contemporary Chair and Cabinet maker to Chippendale, 1750-1779, but this is disputed. Manwaring had worked for Chippendale, but had his own distinctive designs. This example shows an eagle's head motif.

THE CHURCH PLATE

The Silver Flagon is 11 in. high, weighs 32 oz. 12dwts., and is inscribed "I H S", and Hall-marked W A, Newcastle, probably 1754.

The Silver Paten is 9 in. in diameter, weighs 10 oz. 16 dwts., and is inscribed "The Gift of Ann Beilby to the Church of Ferriby March 20th 1785". It is Hall-marked H B, London 1783, and is the work of Hester Bateman, a noted London silversmith.

One Silver Chalice is8 in. high, weighs 10 oz. 4dwts., and is inscribed "The Gift of Sir Henry Etherington, Bart. to the Church of North Ferriby 1815". It is Hall- marked N H, London 1815.

Another Silver Chalice is similar, weighing 10 oz. 6 dwts. of the same Hall mark. It is inscribed "Parish Church of North Ferriby 1815". The receipt shows it was purchased from John Harland of Hull in part exchange for an earlier chalice for £6 17s.6d.

The Silver Bread Box is inscribed "In Memory of Mark" and bears the London Hall-mark of 1946.

THE PARISH CHEST

Parish Registers were first ordered to be kept from the time of Elizabeth I, and Parish Chests were required to keep them in. This Chest dates from about 1670. There were three padlocks, one for each Churchwarden, and one for the Vicar.

THE PARISH REGISTERS

The Registers date from 1560 to the present day. One volume has been missing since 1914, for the period 1730-1787, but Xerox copies of the annual returns fill the gap -save for the year 1768 for Baptisms and Burials. The Registers even seem complete for the Commonwealth period. The original Registers up to 1812 are now in the safe custody of the East Riding County Record Office, Beverley. A typewritten copy of these Registers is kept in the Church, the result of the painstaking work of Mrs. J. Bartlett and a group of volunteers who transcribed and checked them.

The Registers also include a list of Collections upon Briefs for 1664-1666 and 1676-1697. In 1665 5s. 7d. was sent towards "the reliefe of the visited (i.e. by plague) in London", and 1666 "towards the reliefe of those who suffered by the terrible late fire at London the sume ofO. 12s. 7d.". French Protestants did much better at £12s. Id. in 1688, and £1 10s. 71/2d. in 1694, while in 1692 the inhabitants of Heoon received only Is. 11 ¥2d.!

Another page is headed: "Children baptised at Swanland and elsewhere in the parish of North.Ferriby (but not by me)". There are 26 names between 1690 and 1726, only one from Ferriby. Chief among the Swanland parents are William Watson (3), Henry Watson (7) and Benjamin Galland (4). These would be members of the Independent Church at Swanland, later to be Congregational.

Probably some followers of John Ryther (above), deprived in 1662 from being Vicar of North Ferriby, continued to meet under his leadership. Certainly he remained at his home in Brough until the Five Mile Act of 1665 forced him to leave the district altogether. The first Independent Chapel at Swanland was built in 1693.

CHURCHWARDENS' AND OVERSEERS' BOOKS

These date from 1613. They include the annual appointment of Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor, and their accounts.

In 1660, the year of the Restoration, we read:

"For washing out the States Armor 0 0 6 To Smedley for setting up ye King's Armor 1 0 0
For his Allowance 2 0
To the ringers and in charges at his majestie's proclamation ...3 6 For bread and wine for Communion 3 7"
The Overseers' Accounts on 4th February 1702 include:
"The Disbursements of John Roxby late Deputy Constable to Thomas Shaw of Ferriby from Micha(elma)s 1701 to Micha(elma)s 1702 Ii. s. d. paid to Mr. Jepson Chief Constable £ 04 for 5 Hue & Cryes £ 10 for a poor Seaman Supper & Lodging £ 02 for repairing the Stocks £ 04 04"

The money was raised by Rate as in 1731:

Assessment for the Relief of the poor of North Ferriby in þe County of Kingston upon Hull, at þe rate of fourpence in þe pound upon all Lands, Tenements etc. from Easter 1731 to Easter 1732.

Francis Witty Overseers" Paul Woollas

THE MEDIAEVAL CHURCH Two pictures of the previous Church are preserved in the Vestry. It was probably built in the early 12th century. TickelI, writing about 1786, describes it in his day:

"The present church, indeed, appears to be only part of a more spacious building, and by time or accident to have been deprived of the whole south aisle; for the steeple, which in all probability originally, as is usual, occupied the middle part of the west end, stands now at the south west corner, and the church consists of two aisles only, formed by a single range of pillars in the middle, running the whole length ofit."

St. Mary's, Lowgate, Hull.

THE FIRST CHARTER OF KINGSTON UPON HULL, as Wyke then came to be called, was granted in 1299. The northern part of the town was built in the

Manor and Parish of North Ferriby, and the southern part in that of Hessle. Whitefriargate marks the boundary between these two Parishes. The first Chapel of St. Mary, known as the Low Church, was built by 1327. Six years later, when it was appropriated to the Priory at North Ferriby, licence was granted to the Prior and brethren to cause Divine Office to be celebrated.

For, writes Tickell,

"they cannot be conveniently present at ecclesiastical offices, or carry their children to be baptised, or their dead to be buried, especially in the winter time, when rains fall, .which often causes inundations, that the said prior and brethren might, in the chapel of St. Mary, newly built at Hull, within the said parish of North Ferriby, cause divine offices to be celebrated, and a font to be erected for baptism, and the dead to be buried in the chapel or chapelyard, as they thought good; also to church women, solemnise marriages, hallow bread and holy water, and all other divine administrations to be performed for the future."

Until the Restoration, St. Mary's was served by "capellani" or chaplains appointed by the vicar of North Ferriby.

THE FONT

The octagonal stone Font was presented by Edward Smith. Its oak cover by Thompson of Kilburn (note the mouse!) was given in memory of Maud Mary Horsley.

MEMORIALS

In his "History of Hull" Tickell records this memorial in the previous Church:

"In a chapel on the north-side of the chancel, formerly the burying place of the family of Haldenby or Holdenby, now the school house, was the picture of a lady of that family in a supplicant posture, with four sons kneeling behind her, and the following broken and imperfect inscription, with three armorial bearings:

"Orate pro anima Elizabethae Haldenby, Uxorem Armigerum, et Filiam Johannes Wentworth, quae tredecim habuit filios et eid ejus animam Deus condonat, 1562."

"That is, as far as it is intelligible, 'Pray for the soul of Elizabeth Haldenby, the wife of Haldenby, esq. and daughter of John Wentworth, who had thirteen sons, whose soul may the Lord pardon, 1562'."

The Parish Registers record: "The buriall of Elizabeth Haldenbie XIth of May Anno dm 1563 Eliza: 5to".

In the Choir Vestry is a tablet with an oval framed inscription wIth two angel heads:

Memento Mori Here Iyeth ye Body of Anne, the Daughter of Em( m )anuel Dewsnop, sometimes Minister of the Gospel in Swanland, and Mercy his Wife, who dyed Oct. 16 Anno Do(min)i 1702
Et Aetatis suae primo
The Small and Great are there. lob 3.19.

Emmanuel Dewsnop was Minister of the Independent Church in Swanland, now the Congregational Church. He may have been the first Minister there, as the list inside the Congregational Church declares, though J. G. Patton, in his "A Country Independent Chapel", traces the succession back through Joseph Shaw to John Ryther.

THE PRYME MONUMENT

In the South-West corner of the Nave is a memorial to the PRYME family.

"Mr. FRANCIS PRYME of HULL, died the 7th July 1769, aged 67. REBECCA his Wife the 28th May 1750, Aged 39.
FRANCES their Daughter the 31st Octr. 1746. Aged 8 years. CHRISTOPHER PRYME Son of FRANCIS PRYME by MARY his first Wife
the 20th Octr. 1784, Aged 46. ALICE his Widow died at HULL, on the 16th October 1834, Aged 86."

The memorial is emblazoned at the base. The Dictionary of National Biography records GEORGE PRYME, 1781-1868, born at Cottingham, only child of Christopher Pryme of Hull, Merchant. George went to Cambridge in 1816, where he was well-known for his lectures for many years on Political Economy.

THE ETHERINGTON MEMORIAL

In the North-West corner of the Nave is the memorial to the ETHERINGTON Family.

"This Monument erected to the Memory of The ETHERINGTON Family, who for many years resided in this Village, And whose remains are deposited below.
HENRY ETHERINGTON Esqr. Merchant, twice Mayor of KINGSTON upon HULL, Died 2nd November 17ro, Aged 67 years.
Jane his Wife Daughter of GEORGE PORTER Gent. Died 15th April 1739, Aged 40 years.
LADY MARIA CONSTANTIA ETHERINGTON (Daughter of the late Sir THOS. CAVE Bart: of STANFORD HALL, Leicestershire, And Wife of Sir HENRY ETHERINGTON Bart: Son of the above) Died 24th February 1811, Aged 66 years.
Sir HENRY ETHERINGTON Bart. who was twice Mayor of HULL, Created a Baronet in 1773, died without Issue, August the 16th: 1819 Aged 88 years. His estates descended to his great Niece, the Rt. Honble Lady MARY BEAU.cLERK, Only Daughter of the Duke of ST. ALBANS, who was married, in 1811, to The Rt. Honble Lord Viscount DEERHURST, eldest Son of the EARL of COVENTRY."

The Epitaph reads:

"Taught of God we should view Losses, Sickness, Pain and Death, but as the several trying Stages by which a Good Man, like Joseph is conducted from a Tent to a Court, Sin his disorder, Christ his Physician, Pain his Medicine, the Bible his Support, the Grave his Rest,
And Death itself an Angel expressly sent to Release the worn out Labourer, Or crown the faithful Soldier."

SIR HENRY ETHERINGTON presented one of the Chalices in 1815. On 19th September 1773 the Mayor and Aldermen of Hull presented a loyal address to George III on the occasion of the American rebellion.

Alderman Henry Etherington was chosen to present it to the King in London. To show his approval, the King made him a Knight.

An anonymous booklet "Recollections of Ferriby", 1890, refers to Sir Henry. His mansion, Ferriby House, took seven years to build. He was very eccentric, but kind, rewarding the tidiest milk-maid, or the owner of the cleanest doorstep. His garden was divided from the School by a wall, where he used to meet his friend Dominie Birks, the Schoolmaster. Sir Henry was short, so he had a pile of stones by the wall for his chats.

THE BELLS AND CLOCK

I am indebted to Mr. G. A. Dawson for some notes on the Bells. There are six Bells in the Tower:

THE ORGAN

The present instrument was built by Nicholson and Co., of Worcester in 1978 recycling metal from the previous organ. It is a Five Rank Unit Extension Pipe Organ operated by a detached electric stopkey Console. There are 25 stops arranged for Great, Small and Pedal Organ. The cost was £10,025. It was dedicated by the Bishop of Hull on 19th November, 1978.

The Organ Screen is an anonymous gift forming a Choir Vestry. The mouse trade-mark shows it has been made by Thompsons' Craftsmen of Kilburn.

THE CHURCHYARD

Parts of the Churchyard have been in use for a thousand years or more. The oldest stones are those of the Priors just outside the porch on the right in the comer as you leave. To the left by the tower is the vault of the Turner family, who followed the Etheringtons in Ferriby House. On the South side of the tower some way down the path on the right is a large grave with a slab stone -"UNDERNEATH ARE DEPOSITED THE MORTAL REMAINS OF THE REV. THOMAS FISHER M.A. -DIED AUGUST 3rd 1842 AGED 82 YEARS".

Thomas Fisher was brother of the great-grandfather of Archbishop Lord Fisher of Lambeth.

Close to the Nave on the same side is a memorial to EDWARD CHERRY, the village Blacksmith. The registers record the cause of his death as cancer. In the comer of the Nave and Chancel on the South side can be seen the base of what must have been the Churchyard Cross. There is also a piece of stone from one of the windows of the previous Church.

The extension to the Churchyard near the Bowling Green was added and consecrated in 1966 on 29th April by the Bishop of Hull. It contains a central part reserved for the burial or cremated remains, which is supplemented by a Book of Remembrance in the Church on the window ledge immediately west of the porch.

The Church in any age is the people of God: the building, however beautiful, is only the shell of the vital, living, growing family of God. We hope this booklet not only makes the building of the Church become real and alive to you, but also helps you to see beyond the stones and glass to the people in all ages who have found here their meeting point with God himself.

Before you leave the Church, will you please pray for the clergy and people who serve God here? You may care to use this prayer:

O GOD our heavenly Father,
make the door of this Parish Church
wide enough to receive all who need human love, and fellowship, and a Father's care,
and narrow enough to shut out all envy, pride, and uncharitableness.
Here may the tempted find succour,
and the sorrowing receive comfort;
here may the careless be awakened to repentance, and the penitent be assured of thy mercy;
and here may all thy children renew their strength in thee,
and go on their way rejoicing;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A. L. Binn -Viking Century in East Yorkshire. Borthwick Institute, York.
Canon F. Colquhoun -Parish Prayers. G. A. Dawson -Notes on the Bells. Dictionary of National Biography.
J. G. Hall- History of South Cave and District. A. S. Harvey -North Ferriby Priory.
Revd. N. A. H. Lawrence- Notes on the Advowson of North Ferriby. J. Lawson -History of Hull Grammar School. J. G. Patton -A Country Independent Chapel.
J. Tickell- History of the town and county of Kingston upon Hull. Col. W. L. Ware -The South Staffordshire Regiment.
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