Cockthorpe / Cockthorp / Thorp / Torp

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B01: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: symbol - shield - emblem - Trinity

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph November 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockthorpe/cockthorpe.htm] [accessed 11 Ddecember 2013]

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B03: symbol - shield - emblem - St. Peter

Scene Description: two crossed keys (keys in saltire) -- [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph November 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockthorpe/cockthorpe.htm] [accessed 11 Ddecember 2013]

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B04: symbol - shield - emblem - St. Paul

Scene Description: two swords in saltire -- [cf. Font notes]

B05: symbol - shield - emblem - St. Andrew

Scene Description: saltire couped [cf. Font notes]

B06: symbol - shield - emblem - St. James

Scene Description: three scallops -- [cf. Font notes]

B07: symbol - shield - blank

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph November 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockthorpe/cockthorpe.htm] [accessed 11 Ddecember 2013]

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B08: symbol - shield - emblem - St. George

Scene Description: a cross -- [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph November 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockthorpe/cockthorpe.htm] [accessed 11 Ddecember 2013]

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design element - architectural - niche or window - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph November 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockthorpe/cockthorpe.htm] [accessed 11 Ddecember 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph November 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockthorpe/cockthorpe.htm] [accessed 11 Ddecember 2013]

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view of basin - west side

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph November 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockthorpe/cockthorpe.htm] [accessed 11 Ddecember 2013]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockthorpe/cockthorpe.htm] [accessed 11 Ddecember 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 July 1984 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cockthorpe All Saints church from SE [6305] 1984-07-12.jpg] [accessed 11 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: photograph taken from beneath the tower; the font is just east of the tower arch

Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockthorpe/cockthorpe.htm] [accessed 11 Ddecember 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font visible at the west end, near the tower arch

Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockthorpe/cockthorpe.htm] [accessed 11 Ddecember 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockthorpe/cockthorpe.htm] [accessed 11 Ddecember 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12573COC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Cockthorpe, Norfolk NR23 1QS

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 8 km ESE of Wells

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of North Greehow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 17th century,

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Domesday survey has two entries for Cockthorpe [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9842/cock-thorpe/] [accessed 11 December 2013], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints [...] In 1321, Ralph Bacon was instituted rector presented by Roger Bacon of Baconsthorp", and the earliest mention of the church he makes is in relation to a transaction "excepting the advowson of the church [...] in 13 - -". The present font is noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "a handsome sculptured font". Farrer (1887 [1885?]) notes: "Shields on the Font. II. Plain. -- III. A saltire couped, St. Andrew. -- IV. Three escallops, St. James. -- V. Shield of the Passion. -- VI. Emblem of the Trinity. -- VII. Two keys in saltire, St. Peter. -- VIII. Two swords in saltire, St. Paul. -- IX A cross, St. George." Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal. Of yelowish limestone, probably early C17. Shields exhibiting the Symbol of the Trinity, the Instruments of the Passion, crossed keys and crossed swords, two different crowns, and three shells." [NB: we have no information on the font of the early-14th century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.94105, 0.94726

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 56′ 27.78″ N, 0° 56′ 50.14″ E

UTM: 31U 362060 5867685

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Farrer, Edmund, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk, a description of all coats of arms […] now to be found in the county […], Norwich: A.H. Goose and Co., 1885-1893

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

Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834