Cowden Parva / Colden Little / Coldun / Little Cowden

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22417COW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Hilda [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Hilda [aka Hild, Hilde]
Church Notes: abandoned church in the 16thC; reported lost to the sea in 1822 source
Church Address: [hamlet deserted in the 16thC; now submerged in the North Sea]
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1242, 13-14 km NE of Hedon; most of the desrted site has been destroyed by coastal erosion and is now submerged in the North Sea
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of York]
Historical Region: Hundred of North Holderness
Additional Comments: re-cycled / re-used font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
There is an entry for [Little] Cowden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA2442/little-cowden/] [accessed 29 October 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for the church at Aldbrough in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA2442238718] notes: "Church. C11 or earlier nave, C12 chancel, early C13 tower: considerably rebuilt in late C19. [...] C15 font, disused, to nave west end: shallow basin on octagonal pillar with high moulded base said to have been brought from the Church of Saint Hilda, Cowden Parva, now lost to the sea." [cf. BSI entry for Aldbrough]. The loss of this hamlet and its church building is noted in the Beresford Lost Villages site [https://dmv.hull.ac.uk/dmvDetail.cfm?dbkey=4852&county=true] [accessed 29 October 2019].