Qualla: Hull Minster https://qualla.com/hull-minster en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/c/hull-minster-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hull Minster https://qualla.com/hull-minster Hull Minster: Introduction https://qualla.com/hull-minster/ Photo credit Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 13 May 2017, the Archbishop of York travelled to Kingston upon Hull by water. John Sentamu came up the Humber in a flotilla of boats, carrying a lantern lit at All Saints' Church in Hessle, and processed up to the steps of a fourteenth-century church called Holy Trinity. There he rededicated it as Hull Minster. The new name confirmed what the building had quietly been for centuries: the largest parish church in England by floor area, holding some of the finest medieval brickwork in the country, the place where William Wilberforce had been baptised in 1759, and the spiritual centre of a city celebrating its year as UK Capital of Culture.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/c/hull-minster-wp/gcxc-hull-minster-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hull Minster: Brick, Not Stone https://qualla.com/hull-minster/ Photo credit Merlin-UK, Steve F-E-Cameron, CC BY-SA 4.0. Most great English medieval churches were built of stone because stone was what wealthy parishes used. Hull built in brick. The choir of Hull Minster rose between roughly 1340 and 1370, the nave between 1380 and 1420, and the tower between 1490 and 1520, all in brick of remarkabl...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/c/hull-minster-wp/gcxc-hull-minster-brick-not-stone.mp3 0:06 2 full Hull Minster: Wilberforce at the Font https://qualla.com/hull-minster/ Photo credit Paul Harrop, CC BY-SA 2.0. In August 1759, a Hull merchant brought his infant son to Holy Trinity to be baptised. The baby was William Wilberforce, who would grow up in the city, serve as MP first for Hull and then for Yorkshire, and lead the parliamentary campaign that ended the British slave trade in 180...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/c/hull-minster-wp/gcxc-hull-minster-wilberforce-at-the-font.mp3 0:06 3 full Hull Minster: The Blitz That Missed https://qualla.com/hull-minster/ Photo credit Guy Ottaway, CC BY-SA 2.0. Hull was the most heavily bombed city in Britain after London during the Second World War, easily found by Luftwaffe navigators following the line of the Humber Estuary from the North Sea. Whole districts of the city centre were levelled in raids during 1941. Holy Trinity stood w...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/c/hull-minster-wp/gcxc-hull-minster-the-blitz-that-missed.mp3 0:06 4 full Hull Minster: Twenty-Five Bells https://qualla.com/hull-minster/ Photo credit Merlin-UK, Steve F-E-Cameron, CC BY-SA 4.0. The tower today holds two distinct sets of bells. A peal of twelve bells, ten cast in 1899 and two in 1959 by John Taylor of Loughborough, is used for traditional change ringing. A carillon of twenty-five smaller bells, installed in stages between 2013 and 2017, plays melodies co...

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