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All Saints Parish Church - Hessle East Yorkshire
Hessle dates from Anglo-Saxon
times. The original settlement grew up between the woods that are now known as
Hesslewood and the salt marshes which stretched 
eastward
to the river Hull. The Anglians named it “Hoesellea,” ( the hazel grove or
meadow), the Normans called it Hase.
The Church of All Saints, Hessle, served as the Parish Church of a typical East
Yorkshire village, and for nearly four centuries as Mother Church to the
magnificent Chapel of the Holy Trinity Church at Hull, Yorkshire. In 1661, Hull
Holy Trinity became an independent parish, most of the Old Town of Hull was
subject ecclesiastically to the Vicar of Hessle.
Hessle
Parish Church was completely rebuilt in the reign of King Stephen.
Some of the stonework at the west end of the nave dates from that
time. An earlier church, probably Anglo-Saxon, is mentioned in
Domesday Book, 1086: “A church is there and a priest.”
The church appears to have been restored during the years
1868-70 and considerably enlarged, the architect being Mr R. G Smith of
Hull. The chancel and its aisles were then taken down and rebuilt
further eastward, the nave lengthened by two bays, and the narrow aisles widened
to treble their original width. The seating accommodation was raised from 500 to
over 1,000.
A new south porch was added in 1874 and new vestries and an organ chamber in
1901. Considerable deterioration in the stone-work led to extensive restoration
of the church and the north porch in 1947. A central Altar was
created in 1982 by removing the choir stalls in the Chancel and relocating them
within the North Aisle.
During 2001 the Organ was rebuilt by Geoffrey Coffin of Principal
Pipe Organs of York, this involved turning the Organ through 90 degrees, to
release sound in to the nave rather than trap the sound in the Chancel, changing
the action of the organ and allowing the organist a better view of the service
movements. A new Bell frame was installed in the tower in 2001 and
the peal was augmented from a 6 peal to an 8 peal tower in the key of F (sharp).
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