York No. 49, Walmgate / Eboracum / Eburacum / Eburākon / Eoforwic / Everwic / Jórvík

INFORMATION

FontID: 22305YOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter-le-Willows, Walmgate [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: coordinates given are for nearby St Margaret's [cf. GeoDirections]
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: ["The church lay on the west side of Long Close Lane, off Walmgate, just inside the bar" [cf. FontNotes]]
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of York]
Historical Region: Hundred of York
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
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. PETER-LE-WILLOWS is first mentioned in 1279 when Kirkham Priory (E.R.), who held the advowsons of this church and St. Michael-without-Walmgate Bar, wished to unite the churches because the endowments were insufficient to support a priest for each: [...] the union did not take place [...] It was proposed in 1548 to unite the benefice with St. Margaret's; [...] the church had evidently been disused for some time: together with the churchyard it was immediately sold by the corporation to Alderman John Northe for £1. [...] The act of union was completed in 1586. [...] The church lay on the west side of Long Close Lane, off Walmgate, just inside the bar: remains of the fabric have been found."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 626464 5980411

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-08-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.