Bowlalley Lane Unitarian Chapel by Adrian Worsfold

Watercolour and Gouache


Bowlally Lane Unitarian Church - located roughly at the back of the old Post Office in Alfred Gelder Street and demolished there in 1936. It ceased to be a church in 1881, becoming Lincoln's Inn Buildings, and became offices. This octagonal chapel replaced an original one, the oldest non-conformist chapel in Hull, in 1806. In being Unitarian rather than Presbyterian, the new building confirmed considerable theological movement from the original Presbyterian-Puritan meeting places (there were two, originally - one was a house). This painting is based on the drawing by F. S. Smith in 1887.


Hull City Museums and Art Galleries (text, Aldridge, C.), Images of Victorian Hull: F . S. Smith's Drawings of the Old Town, Beverley: Hutton Press Limited and Hull, Hull City Museums and Art Galleries, 24.