Cockley Cley No. 1

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: showing the part of the tower that survived the collapse

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1667244] [accessed 22 January 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: showing the inside of the collapsed tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 January 2005 by Pommes104 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cockley_Cley.jpg] [accessed 22 January 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1667254] [accessed 22 January 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the modern font is visible at the west end, behind the bank of benches on the left [south] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1667288] [accessed 22 January 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font and cover [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockleycley/cockleycley.htm] [accessed 22 January 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15017COC

Church/Chapel: Parrish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Pound Hill, Cockley Cley, Norfolk PE37 8AR

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km SSW of Swaffham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of [South] Greenhoe

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Church Notes: round-tower church [tower in ruins now after collapsing in 1991]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There were three churches in Cockley Cley: All Saints', St. Mary's and St. Peter's. All Saints's is medieval done up in the 1860s, and has only the font from that period, an octagonal basin with large quatrefoil motifs on the sides, raised on a base consisting of four colums attached to a centre core, on a square lower base and an octagonal plinth; all of it Victorian. St. Mary's was Norman before it became a cottage, and has no font left. White's Directory of 1845 notes: "The CHURCH (All Saints) is a venerable fabric, with a short round tower; and near it was a small chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, which was for many years occupied as the rectory-house, but what remains of it is now a cottage. There was also another church (St. Peter's,) at the east end of the village, said to have been burnt down in the reign of Elizabeth. The rectory of All Saints, and the vicarage of St. Peter, valued in the King's Book at £8. 17s. 1d., and in 1831 at £158, are consolidated, in the gift of T.R. Buckworth, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Robert Rolfe, M.A., who is also rector of Caldecot and Thurgarton, in this county, and of Yaxley, in Suffolk. " Both churches are noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999), and in Knott (2006); the latter illustrates the modern font at All Saints'.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.606131, 0.644058

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 22.07″ N, 0° 38′ 38.61″ E

UTM: 31U 340469 5831064

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-22 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999