Cofton Hackett / Coftun / Coston / Coston Hackett / Costone

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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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

Font ID: 16562COF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael [formerly a chapel of ease]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Cofton Church Lane, Cofton Hackett, Worcestershire B45 8BD
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font
Font Notes:
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

UTM: 30U 569306 5803358
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.376099, -1.981888
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 22′ 33.95″ N, 1° 58′ 54.8″ W

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 38-39