Cockersand Abbey / Cocressand / Kokersand

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "The remains of Cockersand Abbey, Thurnham. The Premonstratensian Abbey was founded in 1190. All that remains is this restored Chapter House and some nondescript columns of ruined masonry. (Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England)."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 December 2009 by Humphrey Bolton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1653546] [accessed 7 October 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16504COC
Church/Chapel: Abbey Church [disappeared]
Church Location: Cockerham, Lancaster LA2 0AZ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located in Thurnham, NW of Cockerham, S of Lancaster, NW of Preston
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Amounderness
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Church Notes: abbey founded before 1184 as Hospital of St Mary; refounded as a Premonstratensian priory soon thereafter; promoted to abbey in 1192 but continued to function as a hospital as well; dissolved 1539; only a few ruins of the church remain
Brooke's 1898 transcription of the 'Chartulary' of this Abbey notes "a holy Font with a lock" in it [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of the font at Cockersand Abbey church; the abbey was originally founded in the late-12th century; the Abbey itself was already in disrepair in the 16th century, as Hartwell & Pevsner (2009) note in their reference to John Leland's comment: "Standing veri blekely and object to all wynddes"]. The entry for this abbey in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) has no details of either church or font: "A careful and complete excavation of the site has yet to be made, and until this is done little can be said with any degree of certainty about the plan of the original buildings. They appear, however, to have been built in the usual way round a cloister garth about 80 ft. square, with the church on the north side and the chapter-house on the east."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.977, -2.875
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 58′ 37.2″ N, 2° 52′ 30″ W
UTM: 30U 508198 5980970

LID INFORMATION

Date: Medieval?
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-10-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brooke, Thomas, The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey of the Premonstratensian Order, 1890