York No. 16, Pavement / 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 ALL SAINTS, Pavement, is first mentioned in Domesday Book when the Bishop of Durham held the patronage of the rectory of the gift of the king. (fn. 66) Alexander the priest of the church is mentioned in a document dated between 1160 and 1170. [...] The prevailing style is of the late 14th and early 15th centuries though the fabric has been much renovated in modern times"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. Parker (1847) notes the destruction of much of this Perpendicular church through the years to allow for the broadening of the street; there is no mention of the original font, but Parker (ibid.) notes "the remains of a stoup [from] the now destroyed North porch"; the font must have disappeared at one of those periods. [NB: the original church here preceded the Domesday Survey of 1086; part of the present building is from the later 14th- and 15th-century expansions; a large part of the late-Medieval church was demolished to give room to the expansion of the Pavement market in the late-18th century; the rest of the present church dates from the 1887 re-building by G.E. Street]. The present font is Victorian.