Compton Beauchamp / Compton in the Vale / Compton next Ordeston / Compton next the White Horse / Contone / Conyngton / Cumton / Cumtune /

There is an entry for Compton [Beauchamp] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU2887/compton-beauchamp/] [accessed 6 May 2015], and it mentions a church and half-a-hide of church lands in it. Murray (1882) reports "a good Perp[endicular] octagonal font" in this church. Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "a good octagonal font". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "There was a church at Compton Beauchamp in 1086 [...] The chancel and the north and west walls of the nave, together with the tower or the lower part of it, are apparently of 13th-century date [...] The font is of 15th-century date and has an octagonal stone bowl with panelled sides." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SU2792386919] (1966) reports: "C15 font with canopy by Travers, c.1933". [NB: we have no information on the font from the 11th-century church].