York No. 11, Walmgate / 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 ST. DENYS, Walmgate, is first mentioned in a notification dated between 1154 and c. 1170 in which Alexander, priest and parson of the church, which had been founded within his patrimony (que fundata est in meo patrimonio), gave the advowson for the support of the poor and infirm within St. Leonard's Hospital. The grant is generally read as an indication that Alexander was an hereditary priest; he was both preceded and succeeded by a William. [...] The parish lay south of the Foss and entirely within the city walls. [...] The church comprises [...] a short, narrow nave with wide north and south aisles: this structure was the chancel to a nave that was demolished in 1798. At the same date the spire was removed and the doorway of about 1160 reset in the south chapel or porch. The tower was taken down and rebuilt in 1846. The surviving fabric is a mixture of 13th-, 14th-, and 15th-century styles." Archaeological evidence has been found on the site of this church of earlier buildings, including Anglo-Danish tombs, and there are important Norman components in this church, such as the south dorrway, but we have no information on the original Norman or pre-Conquest fonts of those chur ches]. Glynne (in Butler, 2007) visited this church twice, probably in 1825 and 1846, but mentions no font in his notes. Parker (1847) reports: "The font is good Perpendicular". The RCHM (York, 1962- ), too, reports a font: "octagonal, on moulded base, probably 15th-century." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE6071351574] notes: "Parish church. C14 north aisle; C15 chancel and south aisle, with reset mid C12 door; 1846-47 alterations including rebuilding of west end with tower, and north and south arcades. C19 building by Thomas Pickersgill."; no font mentioned.