Cocking / Cochinges

The Domesday Survey reports a church in Cochinges [Cocking] [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU8717/cocking/] [accessed 1 August 2012]. Harrison (1920) notes a Norman font on a "pedestal of later date". The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4: 1953) notes: "There was a church at Cocking in 1086. [...] This was a prebend of the collegiate church of St. Nicholas at Arundel [...] The church [...] (invocation unknown) stands east of the Manor House. [...] The chancel and nave are of the 12th century [...] The font is tub-shaped, of the 12th century or earlier, and stands on a pedestal which may be later medieval work." Described in Whiteman (1994): "The 12th-century font is plain and tub-shaped". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008), with the following comment by Kathryn A. Morrison: "Nairn and Pevsner date the font to the 12thc., and it is difficult to narrow it down any further. It is tempting, however, to place the plain tub and cup fonts of the county in the first three-quarters of the century, before the fashion for arcaded Sussex marble fonts took over. It is reasonable, however, to expect an overlap of the two types, for financial as much as any other reason." The two plinths on which the font now stands are modern, as indicated in the CRSBI (ibid.)