York No. 27, Monkgate / 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. MAURICE, Monkgate, is first mentioned in a document dated between 1195 and 1210 [...] Like many other small city churches St. Maurice's was shown to be much decayed in capitular visitations during the 15th century, (fn. 728) and in 1548 it was proposed to unite the church with St. Giles's but in 1586 it was united, together with St. John-delPyke, with Holy Trinity, Goodramgate. [...] Unlike other churches affected by the reorganization it was not demolished and continued to be used for services until it was replaced in 1874 by a modern church. [...] After the church was rebuilt it became the church in which the cure was principally exercised in the united parishes. [...] The church [...] which preceded the present one was a small building comprising nave with south aisle, chancel with aisle, south porch, and vestry. A small wooden bell turret surmounted the nave roof [...] It appears to have been restored and rebuilt piecemeal at all periods: some late-14thcentury work in the west window was the earliest. A small carved panel in the pulpit bore the date 1632. Portions of the early-12th-century doorway are preserved in the present churchyard. The present church was completed in 1878." St. Maurice's, later joined with the new 19th-century church of St. Thomas, dated back to Norman times, and its Norman door arch was, accoring to Butler (2007), "transferred to St James the Deacon in Acomb". [NB: we have no information of the original font at St. Maurice's and assume it disappeared]