Cockfield nr. Bishop Auckland
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15904COC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17536252
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Durham, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located SW of Bishop Auckland
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Durham
Font Notes:
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Mackenzie & Ross (1834) note: "The font is a ponderous octagonal bason of freestone". Whellan (1894) [transcribed in http://www.joinermarriageindex.com/pjoiner/genuki/DUR/Cockfield/ [accessed 27 January 2010] informs that this church "was considerably restored" in 1868.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, freestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- 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, vol. 2: 213