The Church Hall

photo: Alan Thurloe

St James' Church in Sutton village was built in 1349, one of the first English churches to be built of local brick as well as stone.

Now well over 670 years old, and Grade I Listed by Historic England our beautiful church is full of atmosphere as well as history.

The churchyard contains 14 CWGC War Graves, and 5 private War Graves.

This is our Front Door  -

you are most welcome

to come in and see us.

Perhaps you're new

to the district and

would like to join us.

You are most welcome.

Old School Museum

& Family History

Centre

The Church Hall is

our 'larger venue'

The Old School is

our 'smaller venue'

BOTH AVAILABLE

FOR HIRE

please contact

the Churchwardens

Church Office  Tel: 01482 703182

postcode :    HU7 4TL

w3w : wide.sofly.hears

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 Churchwardens in the first place.

For other grave enquiries, in relation to

Family History, there is more

detailed information further below.

Just scroll right down .. .. ..

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

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, 2nd & 3rd Sunday of the month.

Every 4th Sunday of the month there is

a Family Service at 10am. 

Baptisms are usually at 12 - noon on the

1st and 3rd Sunday of the month

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 at the top of the menu on the left.

Please note : the Church Office has closed:

best contact for information is to email the

The Churchwardens

churchwardens@suttonstjames.org

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ALL THE INFORMATION

BELOW THIS POINT

is related to reseaching

FAMILY HISTORY

and 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 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 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.

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  .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

note:  The Sutton & Wawne Museum inside the Old School re-opened on Friday 1st April, 2022, after

a two-year closure for covid lockdowns and then repairs.

Our 12c Font

The Font Cover

Sir John de Sutton

1310 ~ 1357

Knight of The Realm ~ 

he fought at Crécy 1346

His grandaughter, Maud, married 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.

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.

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.