Historical Context
Editorially reviewedSir Richard Yorke was extensively commemorated at St John Ousebridge in York. A merchant mark on the church’s late-fifteenth-century lectern is considered a reasonable attribution to Yorke, although the identification is not explicit in the earlier architectural record.
Provenance: A late-fifteenth-century lectern from St John Ousebridge bears a merchant mark that scholarship considers likely to refer to Sir Richard Yorke.
Research status: reviewed · reviewed 31/08/2026
Sources
1 referenceMemorials and Commemoration in Medieval York
PhD thesis, University of York, discussion of merchant commemorations and the St John Ousebridge lectern, p. 50. (University of York / White Rose eTheses)
Supports: States that the surviving late-fifteenth-century lectern bears a merchant mark likely to refer to Sir Richard Yorke and explains the qualified nature of the attribution.
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Sir Richard Yorke Merchant Mark
Probable merchant mark associated with York civic figure Sir Richard Yorke.
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