Dear Friends, Both my reference books refer to Kirk Ella. The following has been taken from Arthur Mee's Yorkshire (East Riding with York) publication (6th impression February 1950), pages 186 & 187: "TRANBY CROFT: "KIRK ELLA. Attractive new houses have come to this old place just outside Hull, and its hall is used by golfers, but the ancient church still stands, and between this village and Cottingham is a farmhouse with stones of a 14th century priory in its walls. "The handsome church tower, thought to have been built in 1562, has a curious appearance with light stone walls climbing up to battlements and pinnacles like a black crown. A niche over the west window has a statue of St. Andrew, the patron saint. The chancel and the nave arcades are 13th century, the chancel divided from the nave by an oddly shaped arch, and finding its glory in a lovely array of lancet windows - a row of six in the south wall and a charming group of three in the east wall with curtain arches and slender shafts. "In the modern oak screen across the north aisle is a beautiful entrance arch of the 14th century, reminding us of a church doorway with its rich mouldings, six shafts, and traceried spandrels; and remains of other medieval woodwork are in the screen across the tower. "Joseph SYKES, a Hull merchant who was mayor of his town and died in Trafalgar year, has an ornate white monument showing him emerging from his tomb, a trumpeting angel above, and below him a panel carved with allegorical figures. Round the panel are bales of goods, a ship, an anvil, scales, and the seated figure of a woman with a winged staff round which two serpents are entwined. "In the modern church at Anlaby, near by, is a memorial to Arthur WILSON, brother of the first Lord Nunburnholme, and one of the builders of the fleet of vessels known as the Wilson Line. One of the ablest of the business men who built up the property of Hull last century, he was known far and wide for his hospitality at Tranby Croft, his beautiful home at Anlaby. It was during a visit of the Prince of Wales last century that one of the guests was accused of cheating at cards, the case coming into the courts and creating a national sensation. Arthur WILSON has been sleeping in the cemetery since 1909, and Tranby Croft is now the office of the Wilson Line." From: Yorkshire - The East Riding by Geoffrey N. Wright, published 1976, pages 144 & 145. "...............The road leaving the eastern end of Welton village leads to Melton, where a left turn takes you past a huge quarry to Swanland, continuing into the outer suburbs of Hull at Kirk Ella, where there is an unusually splendid church with an eight-pinnacled tower and an array of excellent monuments. The old house of the village are around the church, with a timber-framed one to its west, and eighteenth-century Wolfreton Hall Hall on the south. Like so many villages close to Hull, the surviving older parts manage to retain some of their former character and dignity against the thrust of new housing estates and fast urban roads, one of which, the A164 leads northwards towards more open countryside." Regards, Barbara, Auckland, New Zealand