Cockerham / Cocreham
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Michael's Church, Cockerham [...] The oldest surviving part of the original church building is the tower, which dates from the 16th century. The body of the church had been rebuilt in 1814, and this was replaced again in 1910–11 by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 January 2013 by Rude Health [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3284303] [accessed 2 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2010 by JohnArmagh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CockerhamPriory.JPG] [accessed 2 April 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16503COC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Marsh Ln, Cockerham, Lancaster LA2 0EQ, UK
Site Location: Lancashire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A588-B5272 crossroads, 10 km S of Lancaster, 24 NW of Preston
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale -- Hundred of Amounderness [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Cockerham [variant sppelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD4652/cockerham/] [accessed 2 April 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) notes: "Together with the manor the church was given to Leicester Abbey by William de Lancaster about 1153. It was agreed at a later time that there should be four canons regular resident in the church. [...] This agreement was perhaps never fulfilled completely, and in the end the canons ceased to minister there. [...] A perpetual vicar had been appointed as early as 1290 [...] Only the tower is ancient, and belongs probably to the end of the 15 th or beginning of the 16th century, the rest of the church having been rebuilt in 1814 [...] The registers begin in 1595;" no font mentioned. [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church that goes back to the 15th-century]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Legacy System number: 182131] does not mention a font in it.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 511771 5979097
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.9601, -2.8206
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 57′ 36.36″ N, 2° 49′ 14.16″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.