York No. 48, Walmgate / 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 this parish in the Victoria County History (York, 1961) notes: "The church of ST. NICHOLAS, Lawrence Street, which was appurtenant to St. Nicholas's Hospital outside Walmgate Bar, had parochial functions from at least 1280 when the king, as patron of the hospital, arranged that a priest or clerk suitable for serving parochial needs should be sought out and presented to the archbishop [...] The church continued to be used for parochial purposes—although to what extent or under what conditions is not known—until 1644, when it was destroyed in the siege of York [...] The parish was then depopulated and the church was never rebuilt. [...] Some remains of the fabric were still to be seen in the early 18th century and in 1730 stones from it were used to make a pavement along Lawrence Street. [...] The church lay on the south side of Lawrence Street about 650 yards west of Walmgate Bar." The entry for this church in the St Nicholas Center site [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/542/] [accessed 27 August 2019] notes: "he chancel may have been used as a chapel for the leprosy patients and the nave for the parish. The Civil War caused much damage to the church in 1644 and it was then united with St Lawrence's. The remarkable late 12th century Romanesque doorway was dismantled and reassembled at St Margeret's. The smaller doorway may have been taken to St Denys. St Nicholas' bells were rehung in St John's, Ouse Bridge End, in 1653 and building stone reused to repair the Dunnington St Nicholas Church in 1717. So St Nicholas was recycled to continue service as part of the fabric of four other places of worship. St Margaret's is now home to the National Centre for Early Music in York."