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The German Lutheran Church, Hull, Yorkshire
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| 46. NILE STREET. Trinity Independent chapel. Built 1827 and used by the Independents until 1842. It was then used by Baptists 1845-7, and Primitive Methodists 1847-9, before becoming St. Luke's Anglican Church fora period in 1856. Then in 1858 it was acquired by the German Lutherans. German Lutheran services were being held in Hull by 1801. The present Hull German Lutheran Church was founded in the winter of 1847-8. Services were first held in the Sailors' Institute, Waterhouse Lane, and later in the Bethesda Congregrational Chapel, Osborne Street. The first service was held in the newly acquired Nile Street Church in April 1859. The church was described in J.J. Sheahan's History of Hull (1864) as 'a small neat structure of red brick. The interior is neatly pewed, and has galleries on three sides. Against the east wall is the pulpit and beneath it within an enclosed space, is a plain table covered with dark velvet. This is called the altar, and on it stands a handsome crucifix in a neatly mounted base, and two candlesticks containing candles'. A bell tower was added in 1882. By 1910 the building was too small to accommodate an expanding congregation. It was demolished and a new church, designed by Oswald Hillerns, was constructed at a cost of £1,577 in a simplified Gothic style. The first service was held on the 22 March 1911. On the outbreak of the Great War services ceased and the building passed into the care of the Osborne Mission. It reopened on a restricted basis on 22 June 1933, but it was not until 4 July 1935 that the Lutherans regained full possession of the building. During the Second World War the church again closed, being used by Clover Dairies until mid 1948. Services recommenced on 19 June 1949. The church was compulsorily purchased and demolished in the mid 1960s to make way for the construction of the South Orbital Road. The site now lies under the Mytongate roundabout. [The Lost Churches and Chapels of Hull] |
Picture and text by Courtesy of David Neave from the book "The Lost Churches and Chapels of Hull, 1991"
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The German Lutheran Church is located at OS Grid Ref. TA0933528420
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