Ancient_and_modern_York_a_guide

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patrons till 1367, when William de Merrington presented ;
and in 1490, the patronage came to the crown and the
families of Percy, Vavasour, and Lords Scrope, of Bolton.
In 1515 the whole of the patronage came to the crown.
In 1585, the church of St. Clement without Skeldergate
postern, was united to this church, under the I. Edward VI.
In 1659, the belfrey was taken down and a new steeple
of brick and free stone, was erected. At the same time
a new roof was placed on the south side. The interior of
the church is neat ; the roof of the nave; chancel, and
aisles, being flat. Church-room, 300; net value, £226.
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This edifice is of great antiquity ; the north side being
almost wholly built of grit. The vicarage was formerly
one of the great farms of the dean and chapter of York,
and by them was usually demised to one of the canons
residentaries. The dean and chapter are still the patrons.
Church-room, 224 ; net value, £144.
JJrtJilwtman Chapel, St. Safct'otwrate.
This chapel was erected a. d. 1692. A congregation
under the pastoral care of the Rev. Charles Welbeloved,
Unitarian minister, now assemble here for worship. It
appears to have been built under the auspices, and with
the assistance of Dame Sarah Hewley, lady of Sir John
Hewley. The first regular society of non-conformists in
York, of which we have any record, met at the house of
Mr. Andrew Taylor, in Micklegate, an opulent merchant ;
of which Mr. Ralph Ward had the oversight. Mr. Ward
who was one of the ministers ejected by the act of uni
formity, was chaplain to Sir John Hewley, and with the
exception of the time he was in Ouse-bridge gaol and was
driven away by the Oxford bill, continued to preach in