York No. 41, Micklegate / Eboracum / Eburacum / Eburākon / Eoforwic / Everwic / Jórvík

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22290YOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid-to-late?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Gregory, Micklegate [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Gregory the Great
Church Address: The location of the site was approximately York YO1 6LJ, UK [cf. GeoDirections]
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The entry in the VCH [cf. FontNotes]: "The church lay on the east side of Barker (formerly Gregory) Lane about half-way between Tanner Row and Micklegate"
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of York]
Historical Region: Hundred of York
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-to-late 12thC churc here)
Font Notes:
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. GREGORY, Micklegate, is probably first mentioned in a confirmation by Pope Alexander III (dated between 1166 and 1179) of the properties of Holy Trinity Priory [...] Under the Act of Edward VI it was proposed in 1548 to unite the benefice with that of St. Martin's, Micklegate. [...] In the same year the churchyard and church ground were conveyed to Alderman Bean for 20s. [...] The benefice was finally united with St. Martin's (which alone among York's united benefices retains the double name) in 1586. [...] The church lay on the east side of Barker (formerly Gregory) Lane about half-way between Tanner Row and Micklegate."

REFERENCES

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