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St Mary the Virgin
Lowgate Hull
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The Friends of St Mary's and Hull Music Service Present
AN AFTERNOON OF EASY LISTENING WITH THE ALBEMARLE CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Sunday, 30th November. 3pm start. Including Shostakovich, Faure and Rutter £5 on the door. Children free. Refreshments will be available. CHRISTMAS 2025 AT ST MARY'S
CHRISTMAS DAY 10am Eucharist (approx one hour - BCP) Rev Canon Dominic Black FESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS 3pm Sunday 28th December Followed by refreshments FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S - NOTICE OF AGM
11am - Saturday, 31st January, 2026 The next Friends of St Mary's Annual General Meeting will be at 11am on Saturday, 31st January. For details visit the Friends page. VOICES IN AUTUMN
Friday, 17th October, 7.30pm Join us at St Mary's for a joint concert given by DAGGER LANE SINGERS and ANSWERS ON A POSTCARD Proceeds towards the church restoration fund. Tickets £5 at the door. Refreshment available. PLEASE DONATEUpdated 08/04/22
We need to raise an additional £810,000 for: £519,000 - repairs to the tower parapet & pinnacles, North Nave clerestory, North Aisle roof, South Nave parapet pinnacles, doors and rainwater drainage and £291,000 - second phase of internal improvements - creation of meeting area, completion of kitchen and servery and plaster repairs. If you can help support this important work please donate either by using the downloadable form on the Our Challenge page or via our online appeal page: Give A Little 
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St Mary's would like to thank the following organisations and others for supporting our improvement project with grants and donations:
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SAFEGUARDING
To visit our Safeguarding page please click here. VOICES IN AUTUMN
On Friday, 17th October St Mary's hosted a joint concert by: DAGGER LANE SINGERS and ANSWERS ON A POSTCARD St Mary’s would like to thank both groups for a super evening and for kindly donating the proceeds to the St Mary's restoration fund. Also, a big thank you to all those who prepared for the event and provided and served refreshments and to the many who attended. 
A huge thank you to DENARIUS, a chamber group of local professional musicians, for a wonderful concert on Sunday, 14 September.
Many thanks also to Andrew Penny for organising the event and to all who helped to provide refreshments. Thanks also to the audience of 85 who attended. It's great to have your support! All proceeds will go, via the Friends, towards the restoration of the church. See more. 
THE FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S 2024 JOHN SCOTT LECTURE
A Woman’s Work? Women’s Lives in Late 17c Kingston upon Hull Many thanks to Mike Rymer for giving our 2024 lecture on 4th September! Also, thanks to all who helped with preparations and serving refreshments that evening. 
THE THREE ANN(E)S
Saturday, 22 June, 2024 A huge thank you to Ann Airton and Anne Powell for performing a one-hour celebration in words and piano music of the life and works of Anne Brontë. We enjoyed a wonderful afternoon of music and learnt much about Anne, the overshadowed sister. Thank you also to the Friends committee and all our volunteer team for enabling this event to take place and to the many people who attended. We raised over £470 towards the upkeep of the church building! 
A huge thank you to Michael Free who gave such an interesting talk on 10 October as part of our Friends of St Mary's 2023 series of talks. It was super to welcome so many people to St Mary's to hear about Joseph Pease who established Hull and Yorkshire's first bank and whose monument is on the south wall inside the church. Find out more
The Grandsons and Daughters of the Old Temperance Revival
Many thanks to The Grandsons and Daughters of the Old Temperance Revival for a super concert on Saturday, 30 September and for their very kind donation of the proceeds to St Mary's! Also, a big thank you to all our volunteers who served teas and coffees, to those who baked cakes and to those who washed up! |
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St. Mary the Virgin, Lowgate, Hull, is an ancient church dating back to the early fourteenth century, although it is believed a chapel may have existed on the same site before this. The parish now includes the many and various offices, businesses and residences located in the Old Town of Kingston-upon-Hull.
St. Mary’s has been a focus of the area’s elaborate and rich local history and has been at the heart of life for many generations of local people, merchants, and officials. The church continues to attract devoted members to its doors and today, as much as before, has a dedicated congregation who are very much a part of the life and fabric of the church. Today’s congregation, as all others before them, warmly welcome you and hope that you too can sense and share in St. Mary’s long life of prayer and worship. |
