Alvingham No. 3 / Aluingeham / Aluingham / Alvingeham / North Cockerington
Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2013
CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - north view - window - fragment
Scene Description: Source capion: "Saxon window. Fragmentary remains of an 11th century window in the north chancel wall of St.Mary's church" [NB: the entry for this church in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5311/] [accessed 6 May 2019] notes: "A small window fragment in the chancel may be late 11thc [...] The window fragment in the chancel is similar to the tower window at the church of St John the Baptist, Great Hale, in terms of its small scale and monolithic manufacturing process. Everson and Stocker (1999), 311, date the Great Hale window to the late 11thc, the period of transitional overlap between the Anglo-Saxon and Romanesque periods. The stone block above the North Cockerington window fragment is badly weathered, but, based on its undulating surface, it too may have carried carved ornamentation in the form of a row of semi-circular cusps."]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3434689] [accessed 6 May 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: the fragment of an earlier window is discernible in the centre of the chancel wall, in the eastern half of the body of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2013 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3649212] [accessed 6 May 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, North Cockerington at Alvingham. The church was formerly the chapel of a small Gilbertine Priory which adjoined the parish church of St Adelwold at Alvingham. The Priory was founded as a 'double house' for both monks and nuns in about 1150 and by the Dissolution of the Monasteries when the house was surrendered to the Crown on 29 September 1538 it had a prior and seven canons and a prioress and eleven nuns. It was subsequently given to the village of North Cockerington when their church became derelict. The simple two cell monastic chapel was extended over time and the current tower dates from a C19th restoration. The church is now redundant and looked after by the Historic Churches Trust."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Huguet, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2008 by Simon Huguet [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/953107] [accessed 6 May 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2015 ny J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4461335] [accessed 6 May 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: The CRSBI (2019) notes: "The base of the font has also been attributed to the Romanesque period. [...] According to the church guide, the font base is a 12thc column base from the Gilbertine Priory that once stood nearby. The diameter of the base is quite large at 2.54 m and, if it did once form part of the old Priory, it was surely a plinth to a column system rather than the base. However, there are no indentifying characteristics to substantiate this speculation."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2013 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3649182] [accessed 6 May 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: The CRSBI (2019) notes: "The base of the font has also been attributed to the Romanesque period. [...] According to the church guide, the font base is a 12thc column base from the Gilbertine Priory that once stood nearby. The diameter of the base is quite large at 2.54 m and, if it did once form part of the old Priory, it was surely a plinth to a column system rather than the base. However, there are no indentifying characteristics to substantiate this speculation."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2013 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3649178] [accessed 6 May 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0