York No. 46, Walmgate / Eboracum / Eburacum / Eburākon / Eoforwic / Everwic / Jórvík

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22299YOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Walmgate [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: [NB: coordinates are for the approximate area in Walmgate] [cf. GeoDirections]
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: [Nothing is known of the site of the church or of the topography of the parish.]
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of York]
Historical Region: Hundred of York
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the disappeared late-12thC(?) church 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. MARY, Walmgate, is first mentioned in a charter dated between 1177 and 1181 [...] Nothing is known of the site of the church or of the topography of the parish."

REFERENCES

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