Cofton Hackett / Coftun / Coston / Coston Hackett / Costone

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 November 2005 by Annette Leech [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/670453] [accessed 5 November 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16562COF

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael [formerly a chapel of ease]

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Cofton Church Lane, Cofton Hackett, Worcestershire B45 8BD

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the M42, NE of Bromsgrove, 16 km SW of Birmingham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Came [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Halshire

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Font Notes: Click to view

There are two entries for Cofton [Hackett] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0075/cofton-hackett/] [accessed 5 November 2014], one of which mentiones a priest but not a church, though there probably was one there. Miller (1890) notes the church here as a curacy of Northfield, mentions modern baptismal cups and flagon, but not a font in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The building was restored in 1861 and the earliest remaining portions date from the latter half of the 14th century", and reports a modern font here [probably from the 1861 renovation of the medieval church]. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.376099, -1.981888

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 22′ 33.95″ N, 1° 58′ 54.8″ W

UTM: 30U 569306 5803358

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890