Cockley Cley No. 2
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Results: 4 records
view of church exterior - west view
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: west view from the east side of the chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockleycleystmary/cockleycleystmary.htm] [accessed 22 January 2014]
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view of church interior - apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cockleycleystmary/cockleycleystmary.htm] [accessed 22 January 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19015COC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Mary
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Pound Hill, Cockley Cley, Norfolk PE37 8AH
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located next to All Saint's Church, also in Cockley Cley, 6-7 km SSW of Swaffham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of South Greenhoe
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original chapel/church here)
Font Notes:
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PROBLEM WITH IDENTIFICATION BETWEEN "CLEY" AND "COCKLEY CLEY" AS ST PETER's (church destroyed in the 16thC) AND ST MARY's (Norman chapel turned into cottage) ARE INCLUDED IN BOTH -- [cf. Index entry for Cley]
There were three churches in Cockley Cley: All Saints', St. Mary's and St. Peter's. St. Mary's was Norman before it became a cottage, and has no font left. White's Directory of 1845 notes: "The CHURCH (All Saints) is a venerable fabric, with a short round tower; and near it was a small chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, which was for many years occupied as the rectory-house, but what remains of it is now a cottage. There was also another church (St. Peter's,) at the east end of the village, said to have been burnt down in the reign of Elizabeth. The rectory of All Saints, and the vicarage of St. Peter, valued in the King's Book at £8. 17s. 1d., and in 1831 at £158, are consolidated, in the gift of T.R. Buckworth, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Robert Rolfe, M.A., who is also rector of Caldecot and Thurgarton, in this county, and of Yaxley, in Suffolk." English Heritage [Listing NGR: TF7955504112] [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-221009-remains-of-st-mary-s-chapel-cockley-cley] [accessed 22 January 2014] notes: "Remains of St. Mary's [...] Former chapel converted into a dwelling, converted back and almost entirely rebuilt. C12, re-conversion late C20." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church/chapel here].
There were three churches in Cockley Cley: All Saints', St. Mary's and St. Peter's. St. Mary's was Norman before it became a cottage, and has no font left. White's Directory of 1845 notes: "The CHURCH (All Saints) is a venerable fabric, with a short round tower; and near it was a small chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, which was for many years occupied as the rectory-house, but what remains of it is now a cottage. There was also another church (St. Peter's,) at the east end of the village, said to have been burnt down in the reign of Elizabeth. The rectory of All Saints, and the vicarage of St. Peter, valued in the King's Book at £8. 17s. 1d., and in 1831 at £158, are consolidated, in the gift of T.R. Buckworth, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Robert Rolfe, M.A., who is also rector of Caldecot and Thurgarton, in this county, and of Yaxley, in Suffolk." English Heritage [Listing NGR: TF7955504112] [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-221009-remains-of-st-mary-s-chapel-cockley-cley] [accessed 22 January 2014] notes: "Remains of St. Mary's [...] Former chapel converted into a dwelling, converted back and almost entirely rebuilt. C12, re-conversion late C20." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church/chapel here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 340469 5831064
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.606131, 0.644058
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 36′ 22.07″ N, 0° 38′ 38.61″ E
REFERENCES
- White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845, [transcribed in www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/c/cockley_cley/white1845.shtml [accessed 22 January 2014]