York No. 52, Fishergate / Eboracum / Eburacum / Eburākon / Eoforwic / Everwic / Jórvík

INFORMATION

FontID: 22309YOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Stephen
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: site unknown not located -- coordinates given are for the area of Fishergate
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: The site of this church is not known -- Fishergate is located off the A1036 [aka Fishergate], S of the Barbican, N of Fulford
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of York]
Historical Region: Hundred of York
Date: ca. 1093-1094?
Century and Period: 11th century (late?), Norman
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. STEPHEN, Fishergate, is first mentioned in a document of 1093 or 1094 [...] The graveyard of the church is mentioned in a document of the late 13th or early 14th century and appears to be located in Fishergate. [...] No remains of the church have been found and nothing is known of the parish."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 626536 5979235

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-08-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.