P0570/P0619/P0674 St Margaret's Church, Walmgate

Title: P0570/P0619/P0674 St Margaret's Church, Walmgate
Alternative Title: 1998.40 St Margaret's Church, Walmgate
Description: The evaluation excavation recorded a series of intercutting burials dating from the 18th and 19th centuries along with some evidence for the construction of the churchyard boundary wall. The churchyard was found to have once extended into land at the junction of Paver and Percy Lanes but this area may have been lost to the churchyard as early as the 16th century. One trench may have been located in the area of the backyards of properties which fronted onto Paver Lane. Deposits relating to reconstruction works of the church which date from the 1850s were also recorded.

A further three trenches were dug in the churchyard of St Margaret's church in order to address problems with the construction of a new building on the site. Part of the foundations for the northern boundary wall of the churchyard was discovered within the existing entrance way.
Type: Evaluation, Excavation, Watching Brief
Date: 13 May 1998 – 13 May 1998; 7 December 1998 – 7 December 1998; 19 May 1999 – 19 May 1999
Creator: York Archaeological Trust
Contributor: M Johnson (fieldwork)
Spatial Coverage: St Margret's Church, Walmgate, York; SE60905153
Monument Type: Monument Type - Church; Monument Type - Inhumation; Monument Type - Churchyard; Monument Type - Wall; Monument Type - Back Yard
Period: Post-Medieval; Modern

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