GOODMANHAM

Evening Star, Issue 19697, 26 October 1927, Page 1

GOODMANHAM

HISTORIC ADVOWSOH FOR THE SEE OF YORK

A Jilting pendant to the m/enl eclebvatious of tho L-'looih anniversary of the founding of York Minster is the purchase lor the See ol York of the advowson of Goedmanhatn, tor which a fund is now being raised by the Archbishnyi of York. Goodiiianham is a village on the hast Yorkshire Wolds, more than twentj miles away Irom \ork, whose history is romantically linked with that ol the Minster. In the seventh century there stood at Goodiiianham one ol the chiel pagan temples ol Northumbria. 3he Saxon King Edwin had his headquarters not far away, and it was in this neighborhood that Paulinas argued tho case for Christianity before Edwin and his chiefs, as described in a graphic passage by the Venerable. Bede. When tho King signified his acceptance ol _ tho new faith his conversion was proclaimed in symbolic fashion by the desecration of tho pagan temple at Goodiiianham by its priests. It is recorded that tho high priest tiling a spear tho temple. Immediately afterwards Edwin was baptised in a wooden chapel at York, which developed through the centuries into York Minster. Goodrnanliam’s ancient church is believed to occupy the site of the old pagan temple, and a pilgrimage from York to Goodiminhani was the last phase of the celebrations ol the Minster's anniversary. Sonic months ago the owner of tho advowson of Goodmanham was compelled to sell part of his estate. The Archbishop of York felt that it would be undesirable that the patronage of a, church with such special associations should pass into other hands, and he took the responsibility of bnving the advowson for the See of York "for the sum of £I,OOO. _A fund is now being raised in the Northern Province to discharge this debt.—‘ Observer.’