Holy Trinity Goodramgate, York
Holy Trinity Goodramgate, York
Holy Trinity Goodramgate is a Grade I former parish church in central York, now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, hidden behind an eighteenth-century gateway off Goodramgate beside Lady Row.
- Location
- York, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- York
- Address
- Goodramgate, York, Yorkshire, YO1 7LF
- Postcode
- YO1 7LF
- Built
- 12th–15th century; north side rebuilt 1823; porch 1849
- Denomination
- Churches Conservation Trust
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Medieval Gothic
- Materials
- Limestone with later brick repairs
- Grid reference
- SE 604 520
- Opening hours
- Open everyday.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
- Website
- http://holytrinityyork.org/
Overview
Wikipedia and the RCHME inventory date the church from the twelfth century, with a thirteenth-century south-east chapel and fourteenth-century south aisle and arcade. Construction is of limestone, with later repairs and additions in brick. The church was enlarged in 1823 when the north side was rebuilt; the south porch was added in 1849. Regular worship was suspended from 1882 until restoration in 1937, when oak rafters were renewed, a nave pier underpinned and decaying south-aisle stonework replaced. The church was declared redundant on 29 June 1971 and vested in the Churches Conservation Trust on 7 November 1972; further restoration followed in 1973–74.
The Churches Conservation Trust describes uneven floors and listing arcades, exceptionally fine seventeenth- and eighteenth-century box pews unique in York, and medieval stained glass including an east window given in the early 1470s by the rector John Walker. Two boards record Lord Mayors, among them George Hudson. A rainbow plaque at the gate marks Anne Lister and Ann Walker taking communion here at Easter 1834. Historic England lists the church at Grade I (list entry 1257686). It is open every day.