Kirk Ella has been a village since at least the 11th century: it remained a relatively unimportant hamlet until the 18th and 19th centuries, when it became a location of choice for merchants of Hull wishing to live outside the city. Several large houses were built during this period, without any substantial increase in village population. After the 1920s, the village grew substantially, with large amounts of high quality housing surrounding the traditional village centre. The village continued to grow during the second half of the 20th century, becoming a large suburb, contiguous with Anlaby and Willerby.
The first Church on the site was provided before 1066 by Alwyn, a King's Thegn, the Parish being called at that time Aelfsleah or Elverley.
The Church of St Andrew, now a Grade I listed building, dates to the early 13th century (chancel), with a tower dating to the mid 15th century. Much of the structure is of square rubble; the tower is of limestone ashlar; the upper part of the chancel is of rendered brick. The building was restored and remodelled 1859–60, widening the aisles, and a north chapel, south porch and organ chamber added; the tower was restored 1882–83. Other alterations took place in 1886–87 to the chancel north wall and arch; 1890, clerestory windows; 1894 choir vestry, enlarged 1955–56. The church contains numerous monuments and inscriptions, many of late 18th and 19th century, many to members of the Sykes family, most notable of which is one to Joseph Sykes (d.1805) by John Bacon junior, similar to a tomb by Louis-François Roubiliac for William Hargrave in Westminster Abbey. In the graveyard are the stones of a Norman arch, and several 19th century table tombs, including a chest tomb of Jane Whitaker, (d.1815, aged 9 months), now a listed structure.
Richard Anlaby, the Lord of the Manor, and other Freemen gave three bells to be hung in the new tower in 1454. One was found to be broken in 1591 and in 1688 all three needed attention. By the mid-nineteenth century the tenor bell had long been cracked and the Churchwardens wanted to increase the peal, but Major Richard Sykes advised that the tower would not stand it.
On his death in 1870 the bell was sent to Messrs Mears and Stainbank in London who replaced it with two bells.
When the tower was restored and strengthened in 1882 Taylors of Loughborough took down the four bells and recast them into a peal of six at the expense of Arthur Eggington of South Ella, in memory of his mother Frances. A new wooden frame was paid for by the parishioners. In 1928 the bells were rehung on ball bearings, and the peal was further augmented by the addition of two lighter bells in 1976/1977. The full peal of eight bells was rehung in a steel frame by Taylors of Loughborough, the two new bells being dedicated and the other six bells rehallowed by the Archbishop of York on 7th September 1977.
There is on road parking in the village but the road can get very busy. There are places for refreshment close by.
The cache is a longish walk away due to other caches in the area
The coordinates are for the church and the final coordinates are
N053 AB.CDE W000 FG.HJK
A= Elizabeth Doran died 26/A/1845
B= Richard Taylor Rowlay 2/B/1876
C= George Williams Cooper died 13/C/1854
D= Ann Watson died 11/D/1883
E= Thomas Wardell died 1E/1/1862
F= Sarah Richardson died 1F/11/1887
G= John Richardson died G/6/1881
H=Annie Edwards died H/2/1878
J= Ann Richardson died 17/J/1867
K= Samuel Watson died 20/K/1865
Checksum = 53
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