All Saints (in the Marsh), Peasholme Green

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All Saints Church (in the Marsh) was a medieval parish church located on Haymarket in the southwest corner of Peasholme Green in York and used to distinguish it from All Saints, North Street and All Saints, Pavement as All Saints (in the Marsh), Peasholme Green .

The church was demolished in 1586. Archaeological excavations in 1853 and in the 1980s uncovered the north wall of the nave and numerous graves within the former church. The archaeological findings indicate that the church was at least 10 m wide and that there was a tower on the western front.

The earliest mention of All Saints comes from between 1191 and 1206. However, the document suggests that the building had existed a long time before.

At the south-east end of the west facade of the church was the Holy Priests' House since the late 14th century . Here lived priests who were concerned with reading masses with an "intention", that is, with a special concern for the deceased, for whom their relatives had paid a mass stipend . The Holy Priest's House also had a Holy Priests' Well , the head of which is now in the Yorkshire Museum in York.

The priests of the Holy Priests' House used All Saints for their services. In the 1540s, the practice of mass grants was suppressed as a result of the Anglican Reformation under Henry VIII . Priests, whose task it had previously been exclusively to take care of the performance of the Mass grants, which as a rule would last forever, now had to turn to new tasks. Deprived of this function, the church building of All Saints came down. In 1549 the church was ordered to be closed.

Nevertheless, the church continued to exist as a parish church for a few decades, as evidenced by the appointment of new priests in 1551, 1567 and 1573. The building is said to have been in decay as early as 1568, other reports from 1576–78 complain of dirt, decay, pluralism and sermons that were not held. The church was used as a burial site until 1584. In 1586 the parish was finally merged with that of St. Cuthbert, Peasholme Green , the entire inventory of the church was removed and the masonry used to repair streets and the neighboring church of St. Cuthbert, Peasholme Green. Part of the outer walls is said to have existed until 1736, but was also demolished by the end of the 18th century. 15th century alabaster reliefs from All Saints depicting the life of Saint William of York are kept in the Yorkshire Museum.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Wilson, Barbara / Mee, Frances: The Medieval Parish Churches of York. The Pictorial Evidence . York, 1998, p. 37
  2. ↑ http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/zchantry.htm, accessed January 5, 2013

Coordinates: 53 ° 57 ′ 35.8 ″  N , 1 ° 4 ′ 31 ″  W.