Cotherston / Codrestune / Cotherstone
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design element - architectural - arch-head - horseshoe
Scene Description: three parallel rows of them, separated by flat mouldings
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Whitaker (1823)
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: not clear whether this part of the basin underbowl or of the original base; the pedestal below is said to modern
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Whitaker (1823)
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Scene Description: The site of Cotherstone Castle, which the disappeared chapel is said to have been adjoined; only a few stones remain, hte rest are said to have been taken to build dwellings in the area
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Quinn, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 November 2018 by Mike Quinn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6001795] [accessed 24 November 2019]
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view of font
Scene Description: as shown in a ca.1823 illustration
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Whitaker (1823)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11251COT
Church/Chapel: [chapel?]
Church Location: [coordinates for the castle site] [address of the present church: Cotherstone, Barnard Castle DL12 9PP, UK -- Tel.: +44 1833650217
Country Name: England
Location: Durham, North East
Directions to Site: The chapel was said to adjoin Cotherstone Castle, about 5 km NE of Barnard Castle, E of the B6277, SW of the Tees river; near the manor house at Cotherston
Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan -- formerly Yorkshire
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Church Notes: original chapel may have been attached to the disappeared castle; present church of St Cuthbert's built 1881 [NB: 'Cotherstone' said by some to mean Cuthbert's stone']
There is an entry for Cotherstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ0119/cotherstone/] [accessed 24 November 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font in Cotherston is noted and illustrated in Whitaker (1823, vol. 1: 141) as an ancient font dug up in the chapel garth; the basin is cylindrical and decorated with three rows of what appear to be horseshoe arch heads; on four moulded bases that may have had columns on them originally, but the whole is shown as re-mounted (?) on a flat square stone and a set of four clustered columns, on a square plinth, the whole of the base appearing modern. Bulmer's Directory of North Yorkshire (1890) reports: "in Chapel garth adjoining [the burnt ruins of Cotherstone Castle] an ancient font" [source: Transcription by Colin Hinson © 1999 in www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Romaldkirk/Romaldkirk90.html] [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of this font].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.575,
-1.978
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 34′ 30″ N,
1° 58′ 40.8″ W
UTM: 30U 566064 6047980
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Bulmer, T., History, Topography, and Directory of North Yorkshire, Comprising its Ancient and Modern History; [...], Preston: T. Bulmer & Co. (T. Snape & Co. Printers), 1890
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, An history of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York [...], with illustrations by J.M.W. Turner, London: [s.n.], 1823
