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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to grant Saint Charles Borromeo, Roman Catholic Church in the city of Kingston Upon Hull grade 1 (A) listed status. More details
Submitted by Craig Jessop – Deadline to sign up by: 27 July 2008 – Signatures: 109
More details from petition creator
St Charles Borromeo is a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough and is the oldest post-reformation Catholic Church in the city of Kingston upon Hull, England. The church is now a grade II* listed building.
Around 1774 Fr. Charles Howard came from Marton to serve the small number of Catholics in Hull. In 1779 a chapel was established in Posterngate but it was destroyed in the Gordon Riots of 1780. Following the loss of the chapel Catholics were forced to meet in private until in 1798 when Fr Pierre Foucher arrived in Hull, fleeing the French Revolution. He was a wealthy man, possibly an aristocrat. He paid for a small chapel in North Street to be built from his own funds. He returned to France in 1820.
Fr. John Smith was appointed to replace Fr Foucher. He obtained a site in Jarratt Street and began the construction of the present church. The church opened on 29 July 1829. The building of the church was begun by the architect John Earle (b. 1778- d. 1863). It was remodelled soon afterward by J.J. Scholes (b. 1798 - d. 1863).
In later years the aisles were added and the present decor seen in the church was undertaken in 1899 under the stewardship of Canon Sullivan
Current signatories
Craig Jessop, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Nicole Scrivener
- Kim Scrivener
- Simon Carr
- rebecca wray
- Brian McConville
- Ben Delaney
- Bernard Swift
- William Buchan
- Sally Andrew
- James O'Brien
- Dominic Perera
- H A Ainsworth
- Chris Awre
- John Fleming
- Janet Carolan
- Patrick Carolan
- Sydney Draper
- Linda Turner
- Patrick Gill
- Mrs Mary Gillyon-Jackson
- John Oakshott
- emma jessop
- Margaret Oglesby
- James Singleton
- Norah Hanson
- sandra beach
- Pat Edge
- david jones
- Catherine Lazenby
- Pam Quick
- Ken Bennetts
- Valerie Hunter
- Ann Godden
- Bob Knight
- jim carey
- Pat Phillips
- Jennifer O'Gorman
- Leo Murphy
- Norman Gill
- Anne Rosemary Gill
- Norman Jacobson
- Anthony Lazenby
- Richard Mell
- Barbara Routley
- Suzie Dunnington
- Christopher McGowan
- Amanda Habergham
- Philip Guest
- Nikki Hill
- Stephen Hill
- Anthony Wright
- James Murray
- john habergham
- Christina Knight
- Michael Loughlin
- hilary beacock
- John McNicholas
- Irene Girvan
- paul dowling
- Bernadette Barron
- Kathleen Gooch
- Maria Barron
- Clare Pittaway
- James Preece
- Frances Ramsden
- Chris Ramsden
- Carmel Brown
- James Norton
- Tessa Norton
- Owen Branley
- Susan Lord
- Eileen Stout
- Kathleen O'Shea
- Hilary Hutton
- Harold Cambridge
- Thomas A. Mackle
- joan gibson
- barbara Tennant
- John Lawson
- Valerie Ward
- Veronica Jackson
- eileen welland
- julie dewberry
- pamela hessell
- Michael Gilson
- MARTIN RICHARD IGOE
- Alan Gribben
- Patricia Gribben
- Gerard Gribben
- annesutherland
- Tony Finn
- John Loughlin
- Peter Rawson
- Andrew Paul Maslin
- Andrew Paul Maslin
- Angela Maslin
- Paul Maslin
- Dominic Barron
- josieboyce
- Camilla McColm
- Damian Dillon
- Dr Mary Munro-Hill
- Gwendoline Court
- Joanna Lazenby
- Martin Callaghan
- Anthony David Campbell Clark
- Mary Teresa Clark
- PETER HOWARD
