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A Little background . . .
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The Methodist church on the corner of Plane Street and Anlaby Road in Hull, stands amidst the redbrick, terraced heartlands of West Hull |
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Above: Sunday afternoon inthe neighbourhood surrounding the church
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| The church was abandonned five years ago by the community of people who had used it as a place of worship for nearly one hundred years. | |
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Above: The exterior of the church as it appears after five years of neglect
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This church like most urban churches in Britain had suffered from declining attendance in the post-war years, but it still had an active group of people supporting it. This group had drawn up plans in the mid 1990s to safeguard the future of their church. These plans involved partially redevoloping the shurch buildings to make them more useful to the surrounding community in the future. Abruptly, at some point in 1995, a local conservation group succeeded in placing a preservation order on the building, scuppering overnight any plans the church community had to build a future for the Plane Street church. The conservation order which turned the church into a listed building meant that the Methodist church had no option but to abandon the buildings, and so five years ago the buildings doors were closed for the last time by a member of the church. No member of the church community has since been back into the buildings but this does not mean that the Plane Street Church has been empty since the Metodists left . . . |
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