York No. 33 / 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, Fishergate, is first mentioned in a document dated between 1091 and 1095 [...] Nothing is known of the way in which the church was served after Whitby Abbey surrendered in December 1539. It seems likely that it quickly fell out of use [...] The site of the church is marked on the 1852 Ordnance Plan of York between Paragon Street and Heslington Road, where there is now a cattle market [...] Foundations of the fabric and remains from the graveyard have been exposed from time to time during building operations." The entry for the Prioryof All Saints, Fishergate, in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "In the vicinity of Fishergate Bar, York, and probably on a portion of the present cattle market, there stood in Norman times the parish church of All Saints. [...] This church was granted by William Rufus (1087-1100) to the Prior and convent of Whitby [...] Every trace of the small priory has disappeared, and as many changes have taken place in that part of York where it used to stand it is difficult to locate the site of the cell." [cf. infra and supra for the approximate location of this church]. The entry for this church in Megan J. Hall's IN SITU project [https://anchorholdondemand.wordpress.com/north-yorkshire/all-saints-fishergate-york/] [accessed 8 August 2019] notes: "Archaeological investigations carried out from June 2007 through February 2008 at the site of the long-demolished Church of All Saints, Fishergate, in York revealed the foundations of a pre-Norman timber church and, on top of it, those of a stone church with a rectangular nave and rounded east-end apse."