Reproduced from
DRYPOOL -
Being a History of the Ancient
Parish of Drypool cum Southcoates
by M. Edward Ingram (1959)
by M. Edward Ingram (1959)
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Since the late War a new Primary School has been opened in Westcott Street. This is an Aided School and was built by ported payments from the War Damage Commission for seven Church Schools in the Deanery, so it is a Deanery School. A Secondary Modern School, the Alderman Cogan School, has been built in Whitworth Street. This is a Special Agreement School, and was financed partly by the Diocese and partly from the old Alderman Cogan Trust, founded in 1753. The growth of population was further stimulated by the coming of railways and the extension of the docks. In 1850, Victoria Dock was opened, and four years later the parish got its own station, when the Hull and Holderness Railway built its Victoria terminus, by the side of Hedon Road. New streets were cutting into the fields of Summergangs and there was a sort of pincer movement of peoples along the two main roads which ran through the parish. A mission room was opened in Beeton Street in 1856 and licensed for services pending the building of a new church. A site for the latter was given by G. W. and M. W. Liddell, Esquires, and Messrs. Adams & Kelly were appointed as architects. The church, which was Geometric Decorated in style, is of brick with stone dressings. It is cruciform, a nave of six bays, with chancel terminating in an apse. The design allowed for a tower with broach spire over the south porch, but this was |
We now come to a distinct break with the past. On the opening of the new church, the title of parish church, the endowments, registers, rights and emoluments were transferred and after nigh on 900 years St. Peter's was bereft of its ancient status. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Archbishop and the incumbent were all party to the transfer, so it must not be supposed that it was effected without the knowledge of the parishioners; but it is a pity that all concerned did not have a stronger sense of history. Actually St. Andrew's lay in Southcoates, and it would have been better if that had been its title. A precedent for the transfer had been set nine years before when Street's new church of All Saints took the place of the ancient parish church of St. Mary, at Sculcoates. The deed effecting the transfer is dated 12th December, 1878, and by it St. Peter's became a chapel of ease. A parish was assigned to it in November, 1879, when the curate, John Hetherington, was appointed its first vicar, Davis in the meantime having relinquished the patronage to the Simeon Trustees, who had been given the patronage of Drypool by William Wilberforce. Here a small tribute must be paid to the Church Pastoral Aid Society, which made its first grant to the parish in 1852, and has continued to give assistance ever since. |
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