York No. 18, Micklegate / 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. MARTIN, Micklegate, is probably that of which a churchyard is mentioned in a document dated between 1170 and 1180 [...] It was proposed in 1548 to unite the church of St. Gregory with St. Martin's and this was carried out in 1586, St. Martin's being the only united benefice to retain the double name. [...] St. Martin-cum-Gregory was closed for banns and marriages in 1947 and was united with Holy Trinity, Micklegate, in 1953. [...] The parish comprised a small area round the church west of the Ouse and entirely within the walls: to this was added St. Gregory's parish in 1586. The separate identity of the parishes did not survive, even for secular purposes, after the union. [...] The church appears to have been enlarged in the 14th century when the north aisle was built. A clerestory was added to the 13th-century nave in the 15th century and a great deal of other rebuilding was done at the same time: the prevailing style is thus of the 15th century. The porch was added in 1655; the tower was rebuilt in brick in 1667 and the present tower built in 1844. A rood loft was removed in 1570. There is an octagonal 15th-century font." The RCHM (York, 1962- ) notes that a pre-Conquest church is mentioned in Domesday (1086), a church expanded in the 13th century and again, with a large extension, in the 15th century; closed by the 1950s, it was re-used as a youth centre in the 1970s; the font is "of stone, with octagonal bowl, stem and base, 15th-century. Font-cover of oak, late 17th or early 18th century." The cover is illustrated in RCHM (ibid.), an octagonal base with eight scroll ribs and a dove finial. Parker (1847) reports: "A good stoup remains near the south door inside the Church", but does not give a date for it. [NB: at present, June 2011, the church edifice functions as 'The Stained Glass Centre', self-described as "a national resource for the discovery and interpretation of stained glass" [http://stainedglasscentre.org/]; the Centre is operated by The Stained Glass Trust, a registered charity [No. 1119401]] The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE6000551609] notes; "Parish church, now public hall. C11 nave; early C13 north and south arcades; mid C14 north aisle with C13 north doorway. c1430 chancel, chancel chapels and arcades rebuilt retaining part of early C14 south chapel east wall; south side rebuilt, retaining late C14 south porch doorway and upper storey window; west tower rebuilt. Late C15 chancel arch and nave clerestory. 1655 north porch added; c1677 west tower refaced in brick. C18 north and south aisles reroofed; nave and north aisle ceiled. 1844-45 tower upper stage rebuilt; vestry and anteroom formed at west end of north aisle. 1894 restoration and chancel reroofed. [...] C15 font with octagonal bowl, stem and base, and font-cover of late C17-early C18."