York No. 30, Andrewgate / 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. ANDREW, St. Andrewgate, has been identified with the church of that dedication mentioned in Domesday[...] rather than with St. Andrew's Priory in Fishergate [...] Drake, writing in 1736, said the building had 'had the honour to have been converted into a stable at one end, and a brothel at the other'. [...] The buildings were used between c. 1736 and 1833 by St. Peter's School. [...] The character of the building is no longer discernible, but there are traces of 15th-century stonework and some timber framing that formerly supported a small wooden bell-turret." This church was closed ca. 1548 and turned to secular use. Brian Seymournoyes in his ' York's Other Churches and Chapels' (1992): "By 1576 the parson of St. Saviour's was criticised for keeping his 'swyne' in St. Andrew's churchyard, and later still the building was used variously as a stable, a brothel and St. Peter's School, presumably not simultaneously. By 1924 it was called 'The Gospel Hall' and used by the 'open' Plymouth Brethren. The building has now reverted to its proper function and is used by a vigorous evangelical congregation of about 100." The Evangelical Church is located at 59 St Andrewgate, York YO1 7BR, UK. [NB: we have no information on its medieval font]