Sockburn / Soccabryg / Soccabyrig / Socceburg / Socceburn / Sochasburgh / Sockburne

Image and permission received from the author via Paul Weightman (e-mail of 10 April 2012)

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coat of arms - Conyers and Eure

Scene Description: some sources identify these arms with those on the second side of the finial, Conyers & Markenfield. Alfie Alderson [cf. FontNotes] has "Eure - Sir Christopher Conyers d. 1487 m. Mary Eure" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of an original by Alfie Alderson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Paul Weightman (e-mail of 10 April 2012)

coat of arms - Conyers and Markenfield

Scene Description: "2. Conyers, impaling, Gules, on a bend Sable three bezants, Markenfield" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of an original by Alfie Alderson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Paul Weightman (e-mail of 10 April 2012)

coat of arms - Conyers and Vesey (Vesci)

Scene Description: "1. quarterly, Conyers and Vesey" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of an original by Alfie Alderson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Paul Weightman (e-mail of 10 April 2012)

coat of arms - Scrope and Tiptoft

Scene Description: "3. Conyers, impaling a coat, which is perhaps intended for Scrope and Tiptoft" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of an original by Alfie Alderson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Paul Weightman (e-mail of 10 April 2012)

view of basin and cover

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2011 by Brian Combs [www.briancombs.net/3895/] [accessed 15 March 2012]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: part of the ruins of the old church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2011 by Brian Combs [www.briancombs.net/3895/] [accessed 15 March 2012]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the Conyers chapel in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2011 by Brian Combs [www.briancombs.net/3895/] [accessed 15 March 2012]

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Part of the ruin of All Saints' parish church, Sockburn, County Durham, in 1894"

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in The Reliquary, Quarterly Archaeological Journal and Review [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sockburn.Church.1894.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2019]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the newer manor house and the remains of the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2009 by Laura Stephens [www.flickr.com/photos/getyourwellies/3410701428/] [accessed 15 March 2012]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Part of the ruins of All Saints' Church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2018 by Ataffo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arches_in_the_ruins_of_All_Saints_Church,_Sockburn.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2019]

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view of church interior - lapidarium

Scene Description: lapidary inside the Conyers Chapel -- Source caption: "Pre-Conquest and post-Conquest church and graveyard and medieval and post-medieval manors at Sockburn"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2018 by Ataffo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pre-_and_post-conquest_sculpture_stored_in_Conyers_Chapel,_All_Saints_Church,_Sockburn.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2019]

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view of font cover - finial

Scene Description: showing the Conyers and Vesey (Vesci) arms [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Alfie Alderson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Paul Weightman (e-mail of 10 April 2012)

view of font cover - finial

Scene Description: showing the Conyers and Markenfield arms [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Alfie Alderson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Paul Weightman (e-mail of 10 April 2012)

INFORMATION

FontID: 15832SOC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Sockburn, Girsby, Darlington DL2 1PR, UK -- Tel.: +44 1609 881250

Country Name: England

Location: Durham [partly in North Yorkshire], North East

Directions to Site: Located on the N/E bank of the Tees river, right at the Durham county border with North Yorkshire, 5 km S of Neasham, 11 km SE of Darlington, 16 km from Stockton on Tees

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Durham

Historical Region: part of the parish is in North Yorkshire -- part in the Stockton Ward, Durham

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: , Late Medieval? [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Brian Combs, of www.briancombs.net/3895/, for his photographs of this church and font. We are also grateful to Alfie Alderson for his photographs of the font cover finial and his notes on the arms thereon

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Socburn in the Domesday survey. Surtees (1823) writes only of the font cover: "On the wooden cover [...] of the font are four shields: 1. quarterly, Conyers and Vesey. 2. Conyers, impaling, Gules, on a bend Sable three bezants, Markenfield. 3. Conyers, impaling a coat, which is perhaps intended for Scrope and Tiptoft. 4. Shield as 2" [the VCH footnote reads: "The woodwork is apparently modern; but the shields are possibly copied from some older cover."] Noted in Mackenzie & Ross (1834): "The wooden cover of the font was sculptured with the arms of the Conyers and others". Longstaffe, writing in The Church of England Magazine in January 1947, reports: "The old cover is not now to be seen", and gives the four coats-of-arms on it. In Fordyce (1857), verbatim after Mackenzie & Ross. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes the presence in the Conyers chapel, of a number of medieval fragments, among which, "the bowl of a circular font". [NB: the VCH (ibid.) notes that the original pre-Conquest church "stood until the closing years of the 12th century" when an expansion was carried out, and "The Conyers chapel was added on the north side of the nave in the 14th century […] The chapel also contains the collection of preConquest sculptured stones brought together during the restoration and excavations of 1900. They comprise portions of twenty-two crosses and grave-covers of varied and characteristic design." The VCH entry for Sockburn under the county of Durham (vol. 3, 1928), notes the wooden cover of the font: "On the wooden cover [...] of the font are four shields: 1. quarterly, Conyers and Vesey. 2. Conyers, impaling, Gules, on a bend Sable three bezants, Markenfield. 3. Conyers, impaling a coat, which is perhaps intended for Scrope and Tiptoft. 4. Shield as 2.", and illustrates the coats-of-arms; the [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of the heraldic cover (or its replica?). [NB: the arms on the fourth side [cf. supra] are identified by Alfie Alderson Alfie Alderson as "Eure - Sir Christopher Conyers d. 1487 m. Mary Eure […] There is only one wooden font cover. The coats of arms have been crudely overpainted partly in the wrong colours. The four sketches are mine showing the correct colours of the shields. Because the shields relate to various Conyers marriages it would appear that the cover is quite early, or that it is a copy of an earlier cover." [source: 6 April 2012 e-mail communication from A. Alderson to BSI via Paul Weightman]. A recent photograph of the interior of the Conyers chapel(?) shows, among other remains, a plain round basin that is certainly not the original one of the pre-Conquest church; at best, it could be late-Medieval, and even that is stretching its age a lot; there does not seem to be a matching base nearby. Next to it is the wooden cover, a simple round platform with raised ribs and a heraldic finial, also of doubtful age, as indicated in the sources above. The entry for this old chapel in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ3497607106] notes: "Scheduled Ancient Monument. […] Ruined church. Pre-Conquest nave and chancel; late C12 south aisle; chancel rebuilt early C13; C14 chantry, now Conyers, chapel was restored and re-roofed 1900 […] The Conyers chapel contains a superb collection of well-preserved sculpture including: pre-Conquest cross shafts, hog-backed and tegulated grave covers, cross heads; medieval grave covers, some with C14 and C15 inlaid brasses to members of the Conyers family, fragment of square-headed window tracery, circular font bowl and 2 carved panels possibly from an altar tomb; mid C13 effigy of a cross-legged knight."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.4575, -1.46163

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 27′ 27″ N, 1° 27′ 41.87″ W

UTM: 30U 599727 6035515

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern copy of an earlier cover?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: heraldic cover [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-01-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Fordyce, William, The History and Antiquities of the county palatine of Durham; comprising a condensed account of its natural, civil, and ecclesiastical history […], Newcastle, London and Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co., 1857

Mackenzie, Eneas, An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the county palatine of Durham: comprehending the various subjects of natural, civil, and ecclesiastical geography, agriculture, mines, manufactures […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1834

Surtees, Robert, The History and Antiquities of the county palatine of Durham, London; Durham: Nichols and Son, and Bentley; G. Andrews, 1820