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ITEM FROM BULLMERS 1892
The building of St. Mary's school-chapel, in Wilton Street,was for the Catholics east of the river Hull. This building, which cost £3,500, was opened on October 8th, 1856, and continued to be used as a church until 1891.
ITEM FROM BROWNS GUIDE ON HULL 1891
Guide to Hull – 1891) ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC MISSION CHAPEL built in 1856 at a cost of £2,700. It is a neat structure of redbrick, in the Early English style. The building is used for the dual purposes of a school and chapel, the Sanctuary being cut off from the school by large folding doors. The schoolroom is 90 feet by 30 feet, and the high-pitched roof attains a height of 43 feet. New schools have been recently erected adjoining the chapel. It is intended to erect a more convenient and imposing church, and to use the present building for educational purposes only
BOTH ITEMS WRITTEN ABOUT THE SAME TIME YET THEY GIVE A DIFFERENT AMOUNT OF THE COST OF THE SCHOOL.
St marys nuns Hull
In 1856, with the approval of the Right Rev. Dr. Briggs, Bishop of Beverley, Rev. Dean Michael Trappes, parish priest of the only Catholic parish in Hull, begged for the services of the Sisters of Mercy from Baggot Street in Dublin, their Mother House. The Order had been founded by Mother Catherine McAuley in 1831, to follow a life devoted to social service, including teaching, visitation of the sick in hospital and home, child care, shelter and training for unemployed girls. So great had been the demand for Sisters, that he was referred to the recently established Convent of Mercy in Clifford, West Yorkshire, to which the Sisters had come in 1855. Five of these came to Hull in January 1857, reinforced by a novice and a postulant from Baggot Street, to a small house attached to a recently built school chapel in Dansom Lane/Wilton Street. Thus was opened the first Religious House in the town since the Dissolution. When the postulant was clothed in St. Charles’ Church, she was the first woman ever to receive the habit in Hull.The Sisters took charge of the new school in Wilton Street – 90 boys, girls and infants - and the Girls’ school in Canning Street. Alongside this went their characteristic work of visiting the poor and the sick in their homes. Before long, they were allowed to visit the prison
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IN JULY 1972 AN ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ABOUT THE CLOSURE OF THE SCHOOL AFTER MORE THEN A CENTURY.
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