Ancient_and_modern_York_a_guide

76 ANCIENT AND
neat edifice, with a square tower ; being divided into three
aisles. Church-room, 600 ; net value of the preferment,
£138.* The parish, includes the hamlet of Marygate,
part of the township of Clifton, St. Giles (united to it
a.d. 1585), one-third of Heworth, and one-third of Rawcliffe.
It is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the
Earl de Grey, probably as lessee under the crown.
Cruv, gambles.
This church was built in the time of Edward the Con
fessor, and not four hundred years later, as has been
inaccurately stated in three or four publications. In the
Domesday-Book of William the Conqueror, compiled a.d.
1082,—quoted in the preceding pages—we find that the
church of St. Crux, and two stalls in the Butchery or
Shambles, belonged at that time to the earl of Morton -T
and the church was afterwards given by Nigel Fossart,
lord of Doncaster, to St. Mary's Abbey. In 1424, a
commission was directed to the bishop of Dromore, in
Ireland, to dedicate this church ; which appears at that
time to have been re-built. At the dissolution of the
abbeys, the patronage came to the crown. The present
brick steeple was built in 1697 ; the principal expense
being borne by the parishioners. This venerable church
contains many interesting monuments. Sir Thomas Her
bert, the celebrated traveller, lies within it ; the earl of
Northumberland, who was beheaded in 1572, in the
adjoining street, for attempting to raise a rebellion to
dethrone Queen Elizabeth, liberate Mary, queen of Scots,
and re-establish the Roman Catholic religion, is also
buried in it; and several Lord Mayors of York are interred,
within its precincts. It has lately been renovated exter
nally and protected with iron railings. It has churchroom
for 1500 ; and the net value of the preferment
is £94.
* See Lawton's collections, relative to the diocesses of York, and Riponw
London, 1840.