Thank you for visiting our website. 

The warmest of welcomes awaits you

here at St James' Church.

People of all ages and from many walks of life are members of our church. Inspired and strengthened by God, we serve our community in many ways, sharing God’s love as Jesus taught us to do.

Our main Sunday service is Holy Communion at 10.00am

We are able to celebrate weddings, to offer baptism and to give thanks to God for a person’s life at a funeral,

to people living in our parish.

St James' is the historic church in Sutton-on-Hull, a Grade I Listed Building dating from 1349, which many people enjoy exploring when they visit the village.

Former residents, and many other people with

past family connections here, come here for special events in their lives, where St James' timeless history means a great deal to them.  Over the centuries,

our churchyard has been the burial place of

thousands of residents who's many descendants

are now sprinkled to the farthest corners of this earth.

For more details, including a map, please follow

the links at the top of the menu on the left.

The Churchwardens

Churchwardens@suttonstjames.org

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ALL THE INFORMATION

BELOW THIS POINT . . .

is related to reseaching

FAMILY HISTORY

and those seeking graveyard

details and photos.

If that is what you're looking for,

please, do read on:

a selection of photos may appear

down here from time to time.

For those seeking more information about the

history of St James' Church itself,

a brief history is provided on the

Sutton & Wawne Website

[or click on the Old School image]

Scroll down the left-hand menu and

click on the CHURCH HISTORY button

when you get there.

There is also a great deal more information about the

village and general area, including Wawne and our former historic

parish areas of Stoneferry, Wilmington and The Groves,

including a full list of graves in this churchyard.

This is where you will also find photos

and listings of all the names on our

War Memorial, as well as 14 CWGC War Graves

and 5 Family War Graves

in our churchyard.

It's the site to go to for local family history help.

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INFORMATION ON GRAVES IN THE CHURCHYARD

Basic details of the locations of graves in the churchyard, and inscriptions on the stones and monuments, are held by the Family Historians in the Museum, inside the Old School (the former St James Cof E School). They can be viewed in their Monumental Inscription booklet, along with a basic churchyard map, on Fridays, 10am - 2pm.  These records  were compiled by volunteers and only date from the 1970s.  Even then, they only record the memorials that were still standing at that time, and so only on marked graves. 

More detailed information regarding the exact plot number of a grave, including those for which there has been no stone or memorial visible since the 1970s, can only be obtained in the Church Office, where the parish clerk has access to a more detailed plan with plot numbers for most internments back to the middle 1800s and since. But again, for very early burials, most records have been lost, and a search may not necessarily yield a positive result. 

There is a search fee payable for all such searches, the amount of which is laid down by the Diocese of York and is standard across all such churches, and over which neither the vicar nor the clerk has any discretion - no discounts, no deals.

PHOTOS OF GRAVES

However, most of the 1,700 gravestones and memorials that were recorded in the Monumental Inscription book, were photographed by Sutton photographer Bernard Sharp in several successive years from 2005 to about 2016.  The Museum holds a digital photo archive of most of those that were still reasonably readable, and not covered with ivy or undergrowth, etc, as sadly, many have become since. 

Again, on-screen photos can be seen on Fridays.  There is a list of names available on the Museum website; click the 'Churchyard' button and follow the links.   They also hold a small archive of all 14 CWGC war graves, and 5 family war graves that are part of the overall collection, and they are all visible for free on the  S&W MUSEUM WEBSITE.

A couple of sample photos are below.

note: The Sutton & Wawne Museum inside the Old School, just 200yds away nearer the old railway station,

opens on Fridays, 10am - 2pm. Click link above.

The Font Cover

Sir John de Sutton

1310 ~ 1357

Knight of The Realm ~ 

he fought at Crécy 1346

His grandaughter, Maud, married Lord William Hastings,

later 'Baron Hastings', friend

of Edward IV and victor of Towton Moor, where

William was created Baron

'in the field'

for his leadership in helping

to win that ferocious battle

for the King.

William Hastings was later beheaded, at very short notice whilst attending a Privy Council meeting in The Tower in 1483, on the orders of Richard III, supposedly for treason, and so he became the first such execution by beheading

on Tower Green.

I think Richard had him executed because he realised that William already knew

too much about

what was happening -

or about to happen -

to the 'Princes in The Tower'.

By his marriage to Maud, he had then inherited his wife's ancestral lands.

That is how we came to have a "Hastings Manor"

here in Sutton, east of the church, and roughly where Church Mount is today.

Here endeth the

history lesson.

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St James' is a parish of the

 Church of England in the Diocese of York