St Catherine of Siena Church, Cocking
| Cocking church | |
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| Church of Saint Catherine of Siena | |
Cocking church from the south-east
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| 50°57′01″N 0°44′57″W / 50.9504°N 0.7492°WCoordinates: 50°57′01″N 0°44′57″W / 50.9504°N 0.7492°W | |
| Location | Mill Lane, Cocking, West Sussex GU29 0HJ |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | Under the Downs |
| History | |
| Dedication | St Catherine of Siena |
| Dedicated | 29 April 2007 |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Listed building – Grade I |
| Designated | 18 June 1959 |
| Architect(s) |
William Slater (North Aisle: 1863) George Pritchett (Vestry: 1896) |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Saxon / Norman overlap |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Flint with sandstone ashlar dressings |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Cocking with West Lavington |
| Deanery | Midhurst |
| Archdeaconry | Horsham |
| Diocese | Chichester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Clergy | |
| Rector | Revd Linda Robertson |
| Laity | |
| Churchwarden(s) | Diana Griffiths Nico Dekker |
St Catherine of Siena Church is an Anglican parish church in Cocking, a village in the district of Chichester, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex.
The oldest parts of the church date from the 11th century although most of the church is later, from the 12th to 14th centuries, with substantial additions in the mid-19th century. The church had no dedication until, in April 2007, the congregation agreed to dedicate the church to St Catherine of Siena, whose name is engraved on one of the church bells. The church is a Grade I Listed building. Inside the church, the main features of interest are the 11th-century chancel arch, the remnants of a 13th-century wall painting and the 12th-century font.
The church is located at the east of the village between the manor house and Costers Brook. The present manor farmhouse dates from the 15th century and is a Grade II listed building. Parking for the church is in the grounds of the former Manor Farm and is accessed off Mill Lane; there is no vehicular access via Church Lane.
The village war memorial is situated alongside the southern gate into the churchyard from Sunwool Lane, close to where this crosses Costers Brook, in the area known locally as "Bumble Kite". The memorial was originally erected in 1920 in the garden of the headteacher's house attached to the school on the corner of Mill Lane and was moved to its present location in 1959.
The Domesday Book, completed in 1086, records the village of Cocking as "Cochinges" and describes it as having a church and five mills. At this time, the village was held by Robert, son of Tetbald, who had been appointed Sheriff of Arundel and Lord of the Honour of Petworth by Earl Roger de Montgomery. In the 11th century, the church was attached to the St Nicholas collegiate church at Arundel; the college at Arundel then became a priory of the abbey at Séez (Sées) in Normandy, France. Thus the church at Cocking passed to the Abbey of Séez, which was under the Order of Saint Benedict.
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