York No. 8, Ogleforth / 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. JOHN-DEL-PYKE, Ogleforth, is first mentioned in a document dated between 1108 and 1114 [...] The church lay on the north-east side of Ogleforth close to its junction with Chapter House Street: [...] church, churchyard, and parsonage house (which was adjacent to the church) came into the hands of the corporation in 1549 [...] and in 1553 were sold to Archbishop Holgate as premises for his grammar school [...] which had probably been established in property adjoining the church since 1547." The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of Oct. 1864, p. 455) includes an article from the Yorkshire Gazette with news of the discovery of the foundations of the parish church of St. John Del Pyke the previous month, by men excavating a property in Goodramgate; the article further notes "an octagon font […] dug up on the same place […] a few years since". There is no indication as to the date when this church had been demolished, but it is noted that St. John's, an ancient rectory, had been united by statute "to the church of Holy Trinity in Gotheramgate" on 28 January 1585.