Cosby / Cosbi / Cossebi
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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Results: 3 records
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/cossington-church-all-saints/] [accessed 30 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/cossington-church-all-saints/] [accessed 30 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking northeast
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/cossington-church-all-saints/] [accessed 30 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19961COS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [stem only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Address: Main Street, Cosby, Leicestershire LE9 1UW
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km S of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Dioese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton
Additional Comments: altered font? (only the stem of the present font is 14thC, the rest is early-20thC) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 11th-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Cosby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5494/cosby/] [accessed 30 July 2015], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. The Englsih Heritage entry for this church [Listing NGR: SP5479994859] (1957) notes: "Parish church. C11, C13, C14, C15. Restored 1907 by H. Cayley and in 1909 by J. F. J. Goodacre. [...] Font with banded round bowl, 1908, on C14 stem with 4 minor shafts.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 622444 5823657
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.549204, -1.19416
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 32′ 57.13″ N, 1° 11′ 38.98″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round [modern]
Basin Exterior Shape: round [modern]