Cookley / Cokelei / Cokeli

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11709COO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael, Cookley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael_and_All_Angels%27_Church,_Cookley
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Cookley, Halesworth IP19 0LW , United kingdom
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the B1117, near Walpole
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blything [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
There are two entries for Cookley [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM3475/cookley/] [accessed 23 June 2025], one of which reports "0.5 churches. 0.008333 church lands" in it. Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 as a "curiously sculptured" font. Described in Suckling (1946-1948): "octagular font of stone raised on a cylindrical shaft, apparently of earlier date. The eight sides of the basin are charged with shields and emblems, indicative of the Trinity, the sword of St. Peter, a saltire, a cross floriated, &c." Parker (1855) mentions the emblems of the Evangelists on the sides of the basin.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ec.uk/report.asp?compid=50894] [accessed 24 January 2007]
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
  • Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848, vol. 2: 205