York No. 37, Clementhorpe / 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 priory church of ST. CLEMENT appears to have served for parochial purposes in and around Clementhorpe but nothing is known of it until 1464 [...] The church was apparently not used after the suppression of the nunnery and in 1548 the corporation agreed that the mayor should offer it for sale. (fn. 256) It is not known what happened to the fabric: a ruined structure was still to be seen in the early 18th century." The entry for the Priory of St. Clement in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "The priory of St. Clement was founded about 1130 [...] St. Clement's Church, which served for the nuns, was also the church of the parish [...] The nunnery was supervised by the commissioners on 13 June 1536, (fn. 17) and suppressed on 31 August following." The History of the Parish site [www.stclementschurchyork.co.uk/history-of-the-parish/] [accessed 9 August 2019] notes: "Not until 1745 was the stone from all the buildings removed and used for repairing the Walls of the City. The parish remained derelict until its re-birth during the "Industrial Revolution" [...] The population of St. Mary, Bishophill Senior, in the Clementhorpe - Bishopthorpe Road area had grown from 1,227 in 1851 to 4017 in the early 1870's. This was now the parish with the fastest population growth in York. His enthusiasm and the loyal support of the parishioners resulted in the foundation stone being laid on 16th October 1872. St. Clement's Church, as we know it today, was born."