North Cockerington

INFORMATION

Font ID: 09943COC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 13th century [base only], Medieval / composite
Cognate Fonts: Same case of early basin on new base in Alvingham [adjacent church]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_North_Cockerington
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5-6 km NE of Louth
Additional Comments: recycled font: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Fowler (1874) writes: "The font is plain, and rests on the chamfered base of an old Norman pillar." Similarly noted in Sutoon (1898): "The font, a plain octagonal one, rests on part of a Norman pillar." Listed in Stocker (1997: 17ff, 24) as one of a group of baptismal fonts in which "a reversed bowl [of earlier date] is suspected, given the present day appearance of the font".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Fowler, James T., "The Church of St. James, Louth, and Other Churches Visited by the Society on the 26th and 27th of June, 1873", XII, Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Diocese of Lincoln, County of York, Archdeaconry of Northampton, County of Bedford, Diocese of Worcester, County of Leicester and Town of Sheffield, 1874, pp. 1-21; p. 9
  • Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 17ff, 24
  • Sutton, A.F., "A Description of the Churches Visited in the Excursion from Louth, July 6th & 7th, 1897", XXIV, part I, Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Diocese of Lincoln, County of York, Archdeaconry of Northampton, County of Bedford, Diocese of Worcester, County of Leicester and Town of Sheffield, 1898, pp. 95-114; p. 107