York No. 7, Holy Trinity Goodramgate / Gotheramgate / 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 York churches in the Victoria County History (York, 1961) notes: "Eight churches are mentioned in Domesday: [...] three (St. Crux, St. Cuthbert, and Holy Trinity, Micklegate) may be certainly identified, and four (All Saints, Pavement, St. Andrew, St. Andrewgate, St. Martin, Coney Street, and St. Mary, Castlegate) with considerable probability; one is not named [...] Only of one church, and that an early one, is the foundation date certainly known: St. Olave's. [...] The church of HOLY TRINITY, Goodramgate, is mentioned in charters of 1082 and 1093 as part of the foundation grant of Durham Cathedral Priory. Both charters are said to be forgeries but an early foundation for the church is likely. [...] The church was confirmed to the priory in a document dated between 1121 and 1128 and in another of 1153 to c. 1160. [...] The prevailing style is of the 15th century; the nave was enlarged by arcading and throwing out side aisles probably early in the 14th century. The west tower is of later construction;" no font mentioned in the VCH entry. Glynne's visit to this church probably in 1825, notes: "The font [...] an octagonal cup". There is no mention of a font in Parker (1847). Sheahan & Whellan (1857) note: "The font is an octagonal basin ". The RCHM (York, 1962- ) illustrates the font and cover; it dates the font to the early-18th century; the cover, based on churchwardens' accounts, to 1787. An April 2008 report by the Churches Conservation Trust [http://yorkholytrinity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/history.pdf] [accessed 27 November 2008] lists an "Early 18th Century Octagonal font on octagonal waisted stem" and a "1787 Oak font cover" in this church. On-site notes: the baptismal font is octagonal all over and chalice-shaped; rounded underbowl; stem octagonal and tapering towards the middle, then splaying out towards the stubby octagonal lower base; on a tiny quadrangular plinth. The wooden cover has a flat octagonal base with a moulded finial; of 1787, probably contemporary with the font. [NB: the fabric of this church goes back to the 13th century, and there is documentary evidence of an earlier church here ca. 1125, according to the RCHM (ibid.), but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]