York No. 10, Peaseholme Green / 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. [...] In 1087 William de Percy held the church of ST. CUTHBERT, Peaseholme Green, of Earl Hugh. [...] The church is not again mentioned until an institution is recorded in 1238 when the advowson belonged to Holy Trinity Priory [...] The church comprises [...] a nave with a tower at the west end; the porch and vestry are modern. Except for part of the east wall, which is 11th-century work, the building is of about 1500. [...] The church was restored between 1911 and 1912". Parker (1847) reports the presence of the then disused old font still in the church: "The font is good Early English, chalice shaped; it was long used as a water-butt, afterwards as a flower-pot, and is now stowed under the gallery stairs, and a modern slender one, in bad imitation of Perpendicular work, is used as a stand for a basin." Sheahan & Whellan (1857) note: "the font, which is octagonal, is new". Glynne (in Butler, 2007), who visited this church twice, probably in 1825 and 1846, mentions no font and dismissively describes the fitting of this church as "none of the tidiest". The RCHM (York, 1962- ) reports two fonts in this church; the one inside the church is octagonal, of painted stone, 19th-century; the one in the churchyard is a "shallow bowl with foliage carving on underside, very decayed stem, 18th-century." [NB: neither of these fonts match the description of the one noted in Parker [cf. supra], unless the one he noted is the one reported in the yard in the RCHM. The Yorkshire Historic Pages web site [http://www.northeastengland.talktalk.net/YorkStreets.htm#Peaseholme%20Green] [accessed 27 November 2008] notes: "St Cuthbert's Church, Peaseholme Green, was mentioned in the Domesday Book but there is known to have been an earlier Anglo-Saxon church. The church was saved from demolition by Martin Bowes, a Lord Mayor of London who had family connections with the parish." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE6076652041] notes: "Parish Church, now offices of Church of St Michael-le-Belfrey, Minster Yard (qv). Mid C15 incorporating late C11 east wall; C19 vestry and porch. Restored 1911-12; converted c1980"; no font mentioned. [NB: we have no information on present whereabouts of the earlier font(s) of this church]