WYMERSLEY HUNDRED 



COGENHOE 



wall' and has a wooden lintel. Benveen the doorway 

 and the window east of it is a small blocked trefoil- 

 headed opening with wide internal splay, the purpose 

 of which is uncertain, though it is usually classed as a 

 low-side window,^ and immediately east of the door- 

 way is a plain bracket on a moulded corbel. 



The late-i4th-century porch has a low-pitched gable 

 and pointed outer arch of two chamfered orders, the 

 inner order on half-octagonal responds with moulded 

 capitals, the outer continuous: above is a niche, now 

 blocked. In the north-east angle of the porch there is a 

 later stoup with mutilated basin. 



The plain round-headed doorway of the north aisle 

 may not be older than the pointed window west of it, 

 which is of two cinquefoiled lights with quatrefoil in the 

 head, but the window in the west wall is of three lights 

 with modern Perpendicular tracery. The other 15th- 

 century window, which is at the east end of the north 

 wall, is square-headed and of three trefoiled lights, the 

 muUions and tracery new. Farther east in the north 

 wall is a plain oblong recess, or locker, about 3 ft. above 

 the floor.' The arch benveen the aisle and the north 

 chapel is in part old, the original jambs on the west side 

 having filleted shafts at the angles, with moulded 

 capitals. The chapel is under a separate high-pitched 

 gabled roof. 



The clerestory has three square-headed windows of 

 two trefoiled lights on each side. The carved corbels 

 of the old nave roof remain in position, five on each 

 side, those on the south a series of human heads, while 

 those on the north side include an ox's head, a muzzled 

 bear, and the head of a bishop.* The low-pitched east 

 gable has a pinnacle at each angle and at its apex a 

 carved stone, said to have been the head of a church- 

 yard cross, remains of which stood by the path to the 

 porch.' The four sides of the cross-head, which is of 

 14th-century date, have trefoiled niches containing 

 original sculpture — on the east the Father seated hold- 

 ing between his knees the crucified Son, on the west 

 a Crucifixion with attendant figures, and in the smaller 

 niches north and south figures of St. Peter and St. 

 Paul.* 



The 15th-century tower, which is faced with finely 

 dressed stone, is of three stages marked by strings, the 

 lofty upper stage being slightly set back. It has a 

 moulded plinth and diagonal buttresses on the west side 

 to the top of the second stage, and terminates in a battle- 

 raented parapet, the pinnacles of which were removed 

 in 1870. The four-centred moulded west doorway is 

 8et in a square frame, with blank shields in the span- 

 drels, and above it, breaking through the first string, 



is a tall four-centred window of three cinquefoiled 

 lights and Perpendicular tracer)-. Over this, in the 

 second stage, is a rectangular traceried opening. The 

 middle stage has a plain pointed opening on the south 

 side and a four-centred doorway to the nave roof on 

 the east. The tall pointed bell-chamber windows are 

 of two cinquefoiled lights with quatrefoil in the head 

 and cusped transoms at mid-height; the hood-mould 

 is taken round the tower at the level of the spring 

 of the arches. There is a vice in the south-west 

 angle. The lofty pointed tower arch is of two cham- 

 fered orders,' the outer continuous and the inner on 

 half-octagonal responds with moulded capitals and 

 bases. 



The font consists of a plain cylindrical bowl 14^ in. 

 high, chamfered round the top, on a double masonry 

 base: the flat cover is modern. The pulpit and other 

 fittings are modern. 



The late-ijth-century effigy of Nicholas de Cogen- 

 hoe in the south aisle has already been described.' 



At the west end of the north aisle is part of a stone 

 coffin, and a small coffin-shaped hollowed stone, 2 ft. 

 in length, possibly for a heart burial.' 



In a glazed frame in the south aisle is a piece of 

 fringed needlework in colour on fine canvas, temp. 

 Henry VIII, which may have been the upper side of 

 a long cushion for the sedile,'" and in the north aisle 

 is hung a large cloth of coarse canvas covered with a 

 repeating design in many coloured cruels, apparently 

 of Elizabethan date, which may have served as a riddel, 

 or curtain in the chancel." 



There is a scratch dial on one of the east jamb stones 

 of the porch, and another on the west jamb of the win- 

 dow east of the porch. 



The east end of the south aisle is occupied by a 

 'shrine' in memory of fourteen men of the parish who 

 fell in the war of 1914-18. 



There is a ring of six bells cast in 1909 by A. Bowell 

 of Ipswich.'^ 



The plate consists of a 17th-century cup and paten 

 (f. 1682) with the maker's mark EB linked, and a 

 flagon of 1743 inscribed 'Cooknoe 1743. The Gift of 

 Bradley Whalley Rector of this Church.' There is also 

 a plated bread-holder c. 1790.'' 



The registers before 1812 are as follows: (i) all 

 entries 15 58-1 657; (ii) 1 661-17 54; ('") baptisms and 

 burials 1755-1812; (iv) marriages 1754-1808; 

 (v) marriages 1808-12. 



A well-bound copy of the Great Bible printed by 

 Robert Barker in 16 17 and purchased in 163 1 is in 

 use in the church.'* The parish also possesses a volume 



' Its sill is 10 ft. above ihc floor. 



' Alloc. Arch. Sec. Rep. xxix, 395. 

 The opening is 19 in. high and 7 in. wide, 

 splaying out inside to 25 in., the splays 

 being e<)ual. The sill is 2 ft. 10 in, above 

 the Hoor and there is a Hat lintel inside. 

 The position is opposite the south-east 

 pillar, and it has been suggested that the 

 'bracket' (stoup) attached to the pillar 

 tnd the opening in the wall were 'inten- 

 tionally connected" : Arch, jfourn. Ixii, 28. 



' It is 22 in. long, 17 in. high, and 13 in. 

 deep, but is not rebated. 



* The other two are a grote9<|ue head 

 and a bearded face. 



* Markham {Stone Croites of P^orthants, 

 49), writing in 1901, says they 'were in 

 existence some forty years ago'. 



' Markham, op. cit. 43. The stone, 

 which is much perished, is 25 in. high and 



rectangular on plan, the east and west 

 being I 3 in. wide, and the north and south 

 faces 9I in. 



' On the west side there is a third order 

 dying into the wall high up. The bells 

 are rung from the ground floor. 



' y.C.H. NoTihanli. i, 396. It lies on 

 the floor, below the south-east window. 



* It is roughly 'triangular' in shape, 

 being 16 in. wide at one end and 7 in. at 

 the other. The coffins were found on the 

 site of the chapel in 1 870. 



'° Hartshomc, MS. notes. It measures 

 37 in. by 18 in. and consists of a set of red 

 and white roses. It was cleaned in 1902 

 by Mr. Ilartshorne and mounted on a 

 board. 



" Hartshorne, MS. notes. It measures 

 5 ft. 10 in. by 4 ft. 4 in. It was repaired 



and restored in 1902. 



'^ There were formerly three bells, the 

 treble and tenor by Henry Bagley 1678, 

 the second blank. In 1909 these were 

 recast and three new bells added. The 

 inscriptions on the old bells are given in 

 North, Ch. BelU of Norihanis. 224. 



" Markham, t.'A./'/j/fo/A'iirMdn/j. 74. 

 The Rev. Bradley Whalley died in June 

 1743, and in his will directed that a large 

 silver cofl^ee pot be sold or exchanged and 

 its value laid out in purchasing 'a flagon 

 of a full quart or more' for the church 

 within one year of his decease. 



'* It was new bound by the church- 

 wardens in 1649 in elm boards covered 

 with leather and with two sets of brass 

 corners and bosses. It was brought again 

 into use in 1902. 



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