York No. 42, Aldwark / Eboracum / Eburacum / Eburākon / Eoforwic / Everwic / Jórvík

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22291YOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen-on-the-Walls, Aldwark [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Church Address: address and coordinates given are for the present Merchant Taylors' Hall: Aldwark, York YO1 7BX, UK [cf. GeoDirections]
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: "The site of the church is thought to have been adjacent to the north-west side of the Merchant Tailors' Hall inside the city wall." [cf. VCH in FontNotes] the Hall is located between Aldwark (S) and the A1036 [aka Jewbury] (N)
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of York]
Historical Region: Hundred of York
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the church documented 1194-1214)
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. HELEN-ON-THE-WALLS, Aldwark, is first mentioned in a charter of 1194 to 1214 [...] The fabric of the church and the churchyard came into the hands of the corporation in 1550. [...] The site of the church is thought to have been adjacent to the north-west side of the Merchant Tailors' Hall inside the city wall."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 626153 5980995

REFERENCES

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