Cottam No. 2 / Cotune / Cotvne

INFORMATION

FontID: 15447COT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity [in ruins]

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: Overcoat Lane, Cottam, Nottinghamshire DN22 0EZ

Country Name: England

Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: [disappeared village] Located 13 km E of Retford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham

Historical Region: Hundred of Bassettlaw

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font / hexagonal font

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for this Cottam [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK8179/cottam/] [accessed 20 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. The CRSBI (2008) reports "a very fine crisply carved limestone hexagonal heraldic font, probably early 15thc." in this church. [cf. Index entry for Cottam No. 1 for a possible Norman font in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.070914, -0.483407

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 4′ 15.29″ N, 0° 29′ 0.26″ W

UTM: 30U 664665 5994341

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2009-10-02 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.