Cocking History Column
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Location
| Street: | Cocking Hill |
| Town: | Cocking |
| Parish: | Cocking |
| Council: | Chichester District Council |
| County: | West Sussex |
| Postcode: | GU19 |
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| Object setting: | Road or Wayside |
| Access is: | Public |
| Location note: | On open ground behind Lamberts Yard and car park. |
| In the AZ book: | West Sussex |
| Page: | 80 |
| Grid reference: | F8 |
| The A-Z books used are A-Z East Sussex and A-Z West Sussex (Editions 1A 2005). Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd. Sevenoaks. | |
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Makers
| Company/Group : | Cocking History Group |
| Role: | Sculptor |
| Name : | Juliet Crawford |
| Role: | Sculptor |
| Name : | Philip Jackson |
| Role: | Sculptor |
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General Information
| Commissioned by: | Funded by: Heritage Lottery Fund: £21,532 and Nationwide Building Society: £1,500 |
| Construction period: | 1999-2005 |
| Installation date: | 2005 |
| Unveiling date: | 15/04/2005 |
| Work is: | Extant |
| Owner custodian: | Cocking Parish Council |
| Object listing: | Not listed |
| Description: | A column containing 48 low relief bronze panels that wind their way downwards in a spiral recoding history from the Bronze Age at the top to the Millennium at the bottom. Twisting around the column between the panels is a narrow ribbon of national history giving context to the Cocking events. Beneath the column on the Portland stone base are inset two bronze relief parish maps facing north and east. |
| Signatures: | Each of the bronze plaques has the initials of the member of the local community who made it. The two bronze parish maps have the initials: JTC in the bottom right hand corner. |
| Inscription: | THE PARISH OF COCKING AD 2000 |
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Classification
| Categories: | Sculptural, Free Standing, Commemorative, Composite |
| Object type1: | Shaft |
| Object subtype1: | Column |
| Subject type1: | Figurative |
| Subject type2: | Pictorial |
| Subject subtype1: | Group |
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Object Parts
| Part 1: | Circular base |
| Material: | Portland stone |
| Height (cm): | 15 |
| Width (cm): | 400 |
| Depth (cm): | 400 |
| Part 2: | Plinth |
| Material: | Portland stone |
| Height (cm): | 150 |
| Width (cm): | 157 |
| Depth (cm): | 157 |
| Part 3: | Whole structure |
| Material: | Bronze and Portland stone |
| Height (cm): | 457 |
| Width (cm): | 400 |
| Depth (cm): | 400 |
| Part 4: | Column |
| Material: | Bronze |
| Height (cm): | 292 |
| Width (cm): | 60 |
| Depth (cm): | 60 |
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Object Condition
| Overall condition: | Good |
| Risk assessment: | No known risk |
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History
| History: | The column weighs three quarters of a ton. It was inspired by Trajan's Column in Rome and was created as part of Cocking's Millennium celebrations and the West Sussex Parish Maps Project. The Cocking History Group were planning the production of a paper map but local resident and sculptor Philip Jackson suggested the more ambitious project. The column contains 48 low relief bronze panels illustrating Cocking's history through images and text. The panels wind their way down the column in a spiral recoding history from the Bronze Age at the top to the Millennium at the bottom. Twisting around the column between the panels is a narrow ribbon of national history giving context to the Cocking events. Beneath the column on the Portland stone base are two parish maps by Juliet Crawford. Jackson taught 28 volunteers the art of working in wax for low relief modelling and letter carving who all worked at home. The panels were cast at Lasham in Hampshire. The column was unveiled by Lady Cowdray, one of the modellers, and blessed by Cocking's vicar, Colin Bradley, on 15 April 2005. There is a lead-wrapped time capsule beneath the column.
('A Sense of Place: West Sussex Parish Maps') The Column won a prestigious Sussex Heritage Award, the ceremony of which took place at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Thursday 6 July 2006. |
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References
| Source 1 : | |
| Title: | 'A Sense of Place: West Sussex Parish Maps' |
| Type: | Book |
| Author: | Leslie, Kim. |
| Page: | 60-62 |
| Publisher: | West Sussex County Council. Chichester. |
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Photographs
Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |  Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |
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