But after his Baptism he took care, by Paulinus's direction, to build a larger and finer church of stone, in the midst whereof his original chapel should be enclosed." To this day, York Minster, the lineal descendant of Eadwine's wooden church, remains dedicated to St.Peter; and the archbishops still sit in the bishop-stool of Paulinus.

Part of Eadwine's later stone cathedral was discovered under the existing choir during the repairs rendered necessary by the incendiary Martin.

As to the heathen temple, its traces still remained even in Baeda's day.

"That place, formerly the abode of idols, is now pointed out not far from York to the westward, beyond the river Dornuentio, and is to-day called Godmundingaham, where the priest himself, through the inspiration of the true God, polluted and destroyed the altars which he himself had consecrated." So close did Baeda live to these early heathen English times.

From the date of St.Augustine's arrival, indeed, Baeda stands upon the surer ground of almost contemporary narrative.
Still the greater part of English Britain remained heathen.