Compton Wyniates / Compton Wynyates / Compton-in-the-Hole / Contone

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symbol - shield

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The chapel stands next the private road between the Manor House and the Estate buildings, which are a short way to its west. The church is locked, and is only open when the House is also open. At other times the main drive to the House and the separate access to the Estate buildings are marked "Private" and the road to the buildings is marked specifically as "No access to church".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edwin Macadam, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph by Edwin Macadam in [www.westgallerychurches.com/warks/Compton_Wynyates/Compton_Wyn.html] [accessed 7 May 2015]

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view of church interior - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edwin Macadam, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph by Edwin Macadam in [www.westgallerychurches.com/warks/Compton_Wynyates/Compton_Wyn.html] [accessed 7 May 2015]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

FontID: 04798COM
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Mary [estate church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [some sources give dedication unknown]
Church Location: Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire CV35 0UD
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 8 km ENE of Shipston-on-Stour, 15 km WNW of Banbury, near the county border with Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Kington
Font Location in Church: In the NW corner, behind a pillar
Date: ca. 1665?
Century and Period: 17th century(mid?), Restoration
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: NB: The chapel stands next the private road between the Manor House and the Estate buildings, which are a short way to its west. The church is locked, and is only open when the House is also open. At other times the main drive to the House and the separate access to the Estate buildings are marked "Private" and the road to the buildings is marked specifically as "No access to church"
There is an entry for Compton [Wynyates] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey, Warwickshire Folio: 242v [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7308681] [accessed 6 January 2015]. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "Philip de Compton was patron of the church in 1279 [...] The main body was rebuilt about 1665, [...] probably on the foundations of the previous church; but the west tower, although altered in appearance, is a survival of the earlier church, at least in its lower part [...] The font, of the date of the church [i.e., ca. 1665], is of veined purple-grey marble; the basin is of oval plan." A font here is described and illustrated in Hutton (1957) as a marble font of the Classical period [i.e., 1600-1830], which may well be of the time when this Restoration church was built [1663-1666] to replace the old private chapel and church which had existed there, besides the Compton Wyniates manor house. The marble basin appears oval with a deep scotia under the rim moulding; a shield at the front upper area si the only other ornamentation. The base is cylindrical in three parts, and appears to be limestone rather than marble. There is a wooden rounded, two-tier cover. [NB: due to the source photograph angle it is difficult to ascertain that the font is actually oval]. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP3300841929] (1981) reports a "Stone font with oval bowl, baluster stem and wooden cover probably late C17."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 601525 5770302

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (basin only)
Number of Pieces: four?
Font Shape: oval (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: oval

LID INFORMATION

Date: Restoration (17th century?)
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. Font notes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-05-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976