Cotherstone / Cotherston
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view of basin - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14992COT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert
Church Patron Saints: St. Cuthbert
Country Name: England
Location: Durham, North East
Directions to Site: Located on the B6277, 3 km from Eggleston, between Bernard Castle and Romaldkirk
Historical Region: formerly North Riding of Yorkshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 19th - 20th century (?), Modern
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of wwwyorkshireCDbooks.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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A modern baptismal font made of off-white marble; quatrefoiled basin with inscription all around its exterior, raised on four clustered columns with moulded capitals and bases; octgonal lower base. The wooden cover appears contemporary, flat and quatrefoil-shaped. [NB: we found no record of an earlier church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 565732 6047701
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: quatrefoiled (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled
Drainage Notes: no lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: around the basin sides
Inscription Text: "[...] THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO [...]"
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]