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Bethlehem Street

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Grimsby Minster
Bethlehem Street
Grimsby, DN31 1EP
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Grimsby Minster, the church was mentioned in the Domesday Book and there is evidence of Roman and Saxon material in the west wall.

Granted Minster status in 2010, Grimsby Minster is the parish church dedicated to St James. Located in the heart of Grimsby, the church welcomes all – for worship, for coffee, for peace and reflection, for music and art, and much more. The Minster features in many events that take place in the town, from the annual family Christmas Lights Switch On, the graduation ceremony for the University Centre Grimsby, and the annual service of remembrance.

The 13th century building was granted a charter by King John in 1201, fourteen years before he agreed to the Magna Carta in Runnymead.

The floor plan of the building consists of the important cruciform church with a main Nave, Aisles and the North and South Transepts forming the cross at their junction with the main Tower. There is a Chancel, with a Lady Chapel on the north side and the Resurrection Chapel (Memorial Chapel) to the South. The building is of Lincolnshire limestone, the high roofs are covered in grey slate. The main floor is stone, with a modern underfloor heating system. The inside of the building has maintained much of the 13th feel to the building with white limewashed walls and stone ribbing in the vaulted ceiling.

Its significant fixtures and fittings include a fifteenth-century knight effigy of Sir Thomas Haslerton in the Lady Chapel, brought from St Leonard’s Nunnery, Grimsby following the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Due to bomb damage during the second world war and restoration, the exterior facades gives the appearance of a 19th century building. Most of the original stained glass was lost as part of the bomb damage.