York No. 5 / Eboracum / Eburacum / Eburākon / Eoforwic / Everwic / Jórvík

There are twelve entries for York in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE6052/york/] [accessed 8 August 2019] eight of which mentions a church in it [cf. infra]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York, 1961) notes: "The church of ST. WILFRID, Blake Street, is first mentioned in a charter dated between 1145 and 1148 when it is used as a landmark; (fn. 965) in another document of 1150-60, where it is similarly cited, it is called a monasterium [...] The church lay on a site adjacent to the present Assembly Rooms and the churchyard extended to Lendal." The modern font of the present church is described and illustrated in Martin (2006) as a baptismal font by Goldie [i.e., George Goldie (1828-1887), architect and native of York]: "The font is appropriately strongly built and weighty, embeded with large, jewel-like roundels." It is, more appropriately described, the typical Victorian aberration of a Romanesque font, although the cover, executed losely in the shape of a round-church, is, instead, much more bearable, almost appealing, were it not for the totally out-of-place finial of Gothic-like scrolls. The cover is hooked to a raising mechanism to aid in lifting it for access to the basin interior. The entry for the Victorian church here [Listing NGR: SE6015152127 ] lists the Victorian church without a mention of its predecesor or a font in it.