Compton nr. Reading / Compton Parva / Comthon / Comtone / Contone / Cumpton / Cumtune
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of font and cover
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view of font cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01009COM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Nicholas of Myra [originally St. Nicholas]
Church Location: Aldworth Road, Compton, Berkshire, RG20 6RD
Country Name: England
Location: Berkshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km WWN of Reading, just E of the A34, 35 km S of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Nakedthorn [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Compton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the N aisle
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
There are two entries for this Compton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5179/compton/] [accessed 6 May 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840", as a font of the Norman style. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4m, 1924) notes: "The building was much restored and modernized in 1850 [...] It is, therefore, impossible to assign a date to the body of the building, but the Norman font, which is still in use, suggests the existence of a 12th-century structure; the tower is a 15th-century addition. [...] A circular 12th-century tub font remains, though its base has been partly broken away. The cover, which has been much restored, probably dates from the 15th century." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.513223,
-1.242843
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 30′ 47.6″ N,
1° 14′ 34.24″ W
UTM: 30U 621929 5708363
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped (cylindrical)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-century? [restored]
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and crown shaped, the sides decorated with flower-in-a-quatrefoil panels and crenellated around the top; floral finial.
REFERENCES
"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; r["References"]
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
