York No. 35, Fishergate / Eboracum / Eburacum / Eburākon / Eoforwic / Everwic / Jórvík

INFORMATION

FontID: 22280YOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew, Fishergate [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: [approximate coordinates] [cf. GeoDirections]
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Fishergate is located S of the city walls, N of Fulford, on the E banks of Ouse river
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of York]
Historical Region: Hundred of York
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
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, Fishergate, is first mentioned in a grant of the early to mid-12th century [...] About 1200 the church was included in the foundation of St. Andrew's Gilbertine Priory. [...] Nothing is known about the parochial functions of the church before 1200". The York Archaeological Trust has a photograph captioned "Church of St Andrew's, Fishergate, York, walls visible as trenches only, with medieval graves", apparently all that remains of this church.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 626536 5979235

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-08-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.