St Mary's Chambers sits down the side of St Mary's Church on Lowgate and once served as a vicarage for Mrs Scott, the wife of the Rev John Scott. The story, as told on ghost tours, is that her ghost can be seen at the window and that if you place a hand on the glass she will place hers against it from the other side.
Mike Covell, writing for Spooky Isles in 2017, says the story originates in the 1970s, when the Hull Times reported that the property was haunted. That report, he says, made no mention of a woman at the window or of warm hands. It mentioned that the property was prone to cold draughts and that a lady in black had been seen not at a window but in a doorway inside.
He adds that a very similar story is told of another window in a nearby building that was Harrison's Hospital, a woman said to warm or chill your hand depending on whether she likes you. He says there was no fire or death of a woman there, and that putting your hand in the air makes it cold for ordinary reasons. The entry is therefore a documented ghost-tour tradition whose own history looks shallow, and it is tagged dubious. The pin is approximate beside St Mary's Church.
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