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St Martin, Yapham, Yorkshire, East Riding

Location
(53°57′29″N, 0°47′56″W)
Yapham
SE 789 520
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Yorkshire, East Riding
now East Riding of Yorkshire
medieval York
now York
formerly St Martin
now St Martin
  • Rita Wood
17 Oct 2003

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Feature Sets
Description

A simple church of nave and chancel in one. The church was largely rebuilt 1777-8. The earlier fabric is rag-stone, repairs in brick in the upper parts. The only Romanesque feature is a plain circular font, shallow and on a stem.

History

Yapham is mentioned in Domesday: 'Land of the King: in Iapun, ULf and Ulstan (had) 10 carucates and 6 bovates for geld. Land for two ploughs. 40s'. Also around the time of the Domesday Book, Lewin the priest gave 14 bovates in Yapham to St Mary's York.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

Comparable with the font at Lockington.

Church has medieval masonry, but no sculpture noted.

Bibliography

Morris, J. E. The East Riding of Yorkshire, 2nd ed., Little Guides, London, 1919, 342.

Pevsner, N. & Neave, D. Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, 2nd. ed. London, 1995, 769.

Allison, K.J. (ed.), Victoria County History: A History of the county of Yorkshire: East Riding, Volume 2, 1974, 191, 204, 321.