The Church Hall
photo: Alan Thurloe
St James' Church
Sutton-on-Hull
Welcome
Update: Fri 8 Jan 2021
St James’ Church
2021
St James’ Church
is now closed both
for public worship services and for private prayer
until further notice.
All text below here is
out of date and to be disregarded until we can open once again.
Thank You
Gloria.
We ask that new worshippers attending St James' leave their name and contact details to assist with the NHS Test and Trace programme,
in line with government guidance.
The Holy Communion service will be different from our normal pattern of worship before lockdown. The service
will have a takeaway service sheet,
a sermon, and Holy Communion will be
in one kind (i.e. bread only). There will
be music during the service, but unfortunately, current guidance does not allow congregational or choral singing.
To help keep people safe we have introduced a number of changes:
May we continue to pray for God’s strength and protection using the words of our new Archbishop, The Most Revd Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, who blessed us during his Consecration service on Thursday 9 July 2020.
May the love of our good and generous God guide and protect us;
may the hope of the gospel
sustain us and bring us joy;
when we are lost or lonely,
when the road ahead seems hard,
or when the darkness gathers,
may the light and peace of Christ
be ours.
Amen.
The Museum, and all routine or planned events inside
the Old School,
have likewise closed
until further notice.
We held a very successful but very
socially distanced service at the
War Memorial on Nov 8th.
Whatever our problems,
We Will Never Forget.
Please note that all other events or timings that are already posted below this notice,
or on other pages, are to be ignored -
until further notice,
or the current emergency ends
and life returns to normal.
Everyone, please, stay safe,
for all our sakes, follow official advice and guidance, and don't allow yourself to be alarmed by the inevitable 'rumour mill'.
TAKE CARE
Help one another.
GOD BLESS
click the 'Posts' link when opened
to see latest messages
Our vicar is the Revd Gloria Naylor
Email: gloria.naylor@suttonstjames.org
Tel: 01482 783 143
Our Church office is closed
(The Church Office was previously open
Monday from 11am to 1pm,
and Wednesday & Friday
between 10am and 12-noon).
Tel: 01482 703182 +
Email: office@suttonstjames.org
This is also the time of year when couples often get engaged:
please note that our arrangements for enquiries
about booking weddings have changed
With open hearts and
open doors we
welcome you to come
and worship with us.
Bring a Friend
and come prepared to sing !
1st and 3rd Sunday | 10.00 a.m. | Holy Communion |
2nd Sunday | 10.00 a.m. | Morning Prayer |
4th Sunday | 10.00 a.m. | Family Service |
2nd and 4th Sunday | 8.00 a.m. | Holy Communion |
MIDWEEK SERVICE | ||
Wednesday | 10.00 a.m. | Holy Communion |
one of our eight bells
view from
the Tower
Sutton on Hull
War Memorial
1914 ~ 1919
and
1939 ~ 1945
photo taken 12 Nov 2018
Church Office Tel: 01482 703182
postcode : HU7 4TL
If you would like to contact the vicar, the Revd Gloria Naylor,
you can do so at:-
Email: gloria.naylor@suttonstjames.org
Tel: 01482 783143 (Rectory)
If your enquiry is to seek grave information with a view to
burial of ashes, please contact the Church Office in the first place.
For other grave enquiries, in relation to Family History, there is more detailed information further below.
Wedding Enquiries
Congratulations on your engagement and your decision to get married in church. We are happy to help you to commit your lives to one another and
to ask God to bless your marriage.
Please contact our vicar,
The Revd Gloria Naylor,
for a Monday appointment.
More information can be found by clicking the WEDDINGS link
in the Menu
A Timetable of Weekly Events
held at St Mark's Church on Bellfield Ave
is now posted on the St Mark's page -
click in the menu
There is a map to assist visitors to Sutton ;
use the link in the menu on the left.
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 10am, on the 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month. Every 4th Sunday of the month there is a Family Service at 10am. For those who want to start Sunday with a quiet service there is also Holy Communion at 8am, on the 2nd and 4th Sundays.
Baptisms are usually at 12 - noon on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month, and also the 5th Sunday when there is one.
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 whose many descendants are now sprinkled to the farthest corners of this earth.
For more details, including a map,
please follow the links on the left.
Please note these updated Church Office opening times:
Monday : 11am to 1pm
and Wednesday & Friday
between 10am and 12-noon.
Tel: 01482 703182
Email: office@suttonstjames.org
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
[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 Stoneferry, including a full list of graves in the 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. But again, for very early burials, most records have been lost, and a search may not neccessarily 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.
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 2005. The Museum holds a digital archive of most of those that were still reasonably readable, and not covered with ivy or undergrowth, etc, as many have since become. Again, on-screen photos can be seen on Fridays. There is a list of these 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 visible for free on the S&W MUSEUM WEBSITE.
a couple of samples .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Parish Safeguarding Adviser -
The Revd Gloria Naylor
Tel. No 01482 783143
We follow Diocesan Safeguarding Protocols
Useful Links:-
The 12c Font
The Font Cover
Sutton War Memorial
Sir John de Sutton
1310 ~ 1357
Knight of The Realm ~
he fought at Crécy 1346
25 Church Street Sutton on Hull HU4 4TL ::
St James' is a parish of the
Church of England in the Diocese of York
For the curious, the background image is a graphic constructed of images of some of our lovely carvings on
the end of our church pews.