Compton Martin / Contone
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
design element - motifs - zigzag
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 25 May 1982 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 1982 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 25 May 1982 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
INFORMATION
FontID: 01217COM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: The Batch, Compton Martin, Bath and North East Somerset BS40 6JA
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km ESE of Blagdon, about 30 kms E of Weston-super-Mare on the A368 to Bath, on the NE side of the Mendip Hills
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Chewton [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this church and font
There is an entry for Compton [Martin] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST5457/compton-martin/] [accessed 28 February 2015], but it mentions neither cleric not church in it. A font in this church is noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "the font is Norman". Wade & Wade (1929) report a "Norm[an] font on a fluted pedestal". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman, circular, with a chip-carved zigzaf frieze." Noted in Betjeman (1980). The baptismal font, as seen now [February 2008], consists of a roughly hemispherical basin, plain but for a band of raised zigzag under the upper rim. It is raised on a cylindrical pedestal base, modern, but much in the style of what one would expect the original to look like [NB: the fluted pedestal reported in Wade & Wade above must have been relaced by the present one]. The wooden cover has eight scroll ribs around a central pivot on a flat octagonal platform, in the Jacobean style (but probably Victorian).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.31028,
-2.65416
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 18′ 37.01″ N,
2° 39′ 14.98″ W
UTM: 30U 524105 5684387
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Betjeman, John, Collins Guide to Parish Churches of England and Wales (including The Isle of Man), St.Jame's Place, London: Collins, 1980
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Rutter, John, Delineations of the North Western Division of the County of Somerset, and of its [...], Shaftesbury; London: Published by the Author; Longman, Rees & Co. [...], 1829
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929
