helen-on-the-walls

Updated: May 20, 2025

Helen-on-the-Walls, with a lamp still burning over it. Many churches in the neighbourhood of Eburacum were dedicated to his wife Helena, the legendary finder of the True Cross. It has been supposed that Constantine the Great was born at York, but this is probably untrue, though he was proclaimed emperor there.

A. (Arthur) Clutton-Brock - The Cathedral Church of York: Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief: History of the Archi-Episcopal See