Cottingham / Cotingham
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: protruding like a lip -- the modern font
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - 16
Scene Description: the modern font -- right below the rim, two tiny ones per side
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design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: the modern font -- mostly quatrefoils, but also other shapes, filling the spandrels and other spaces around the triangular arches
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design element - architectural - arcade - cusped arches - 8
Scene Description: the modern font
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: the modern font -- complex flowers or buds at the bottom of the buttresses of the basin panels
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design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Scene Description: the modern font
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design element - motifs - 8
Scene Description: one on each panel of the underbowl
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view of basin - interior
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view of font and cover in context
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10979COT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1272?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Hallgate, Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU16 4DD
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1233, 8-10 km NW of Hull
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Welton
Additional Comments: disappeared font (the font of the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Cottingham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA0432/cottingham/] [accessed 27 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Sheahan & Whellan (1857) write: ''the font is a large vase of stone'', but also inform that ''the church was built in 1272, and restored in 1845''. The present baptismal font is modern, consisting of an octagonal basin in the Perpendicular style, the vertical sides profusely decorated with tracery and a cusped triangular arch on each side, the lower sides of the arch ending in complex knows that overhang the underbowl; the inner well of the basin is lead-lined and has a central drain; the chamfer of the underbowl is decorated with a motif on each panel; the octagonal pedestal base is plain, perhaps a replacement of the more ornate Victorian original; octagonal two-step plinth; flat wooden cover with a knob finial/handle, probably modern. [NB: we have no information of the original font of the 13th-century church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 670537 5962394
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.782165, -0.411575
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 46′ 55.79″ N, 0° 24′ 41.67″ W
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, with a knob finial/handle
REFERENCES
- Sheahan, James Joseph, History and topography of the city of York; the East Riding of Yorkshire and a portion of the West Riding […], Beverley: printed for the publishers by John Green, Market Place, 1857, p. 539 / [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pnEMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA484&lpg=PA484&dq=lowthorpe+church+font&source=web&ots=voqP9Oob0V&sig=eG9y4rQzjY9QXoOVBZVVv4af2Sc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPP5,M1] [accessed 2 July 2008]