Cocking / Cochinges
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view of font and cover - northeast side
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - vestry - doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1125684] [accessed 24 April 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06494COC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Catherine of Siena [aka Cocking Parish Church]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, just W of the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Catherine of Siena [only since 2007 -- no previous known dedication]
Church Notes: A local website www.gravelroots.net/cocking/mapage1.html [accessed 24 Aprl 2012] notes: "Although no one knows quite why, one of the church's two medieval bells is inscribed with St Catherine's name and the congregation has now decided to adopt her as their patron saint.
Report in April 12 issue of the Observer"
Church Address: 178 Mill Lane, Cocking, West Sussex, GU29 0HJ
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A286, 5 km S of Midhurst, 15 km N of Chichester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Easebourne -- formerly Sussex
Font Notes:
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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.)
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 658069 5646692
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.950148, -0.749623
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 57′ 0.53″ N, 0° 44′ 58.64″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 79.c cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 109.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935, p. 25
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 95
- Nairn, Ian, Sussex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965, p. 193
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 118-119
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 46