York No. 43, Fishergate / Eboracum / Eburacum / Eburākon / Eoforwic / Everwic / Jórvík

INFORMATION

FontID: 22292YOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen, Fishergate
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: direction and coordinates are for the present Fishergate School: Fishergate, York YO10 4AP, UK
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: The present School is located between the A1036 (W) and the A19 (W), S of the Barbican, in the old medieval centre of the city
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of York]
Historical Region: Hundred of York
Date: ca. 1090-1100?
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, 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 this parish in the Victoria County History (York, 1961) notes: "The church of ST. HELEN, Fishergate, is first mentioned in Ralph Paynell's refoundation charter of Holy Trinity Priory dated between c. 1090 and 1100. [...] The church is said to have stood on the site later occupied by Fishergate School half-way down Winterscale Street.[...] The parish lay outside the walls south of the city. It did not retain a separate identity for secular purposes after the union with St. Lawrence's and nothing is known of its topography."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 626321 5979880

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-08-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.