Compton nr. Guildford / Contone

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 June 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4548671] [accessed 21 October 2015]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 June 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4548671] [accessed 21 October 2015]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Compton: The Parish Church of St. Nicholas: The 12th century font. The holes to be seen on the top were for the lockable cover."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 June 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4548671] [accessed 21 October 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Parts of the church of St Nicholas are of Saxon origin, (the tower and chancel arch), but the bulk of the nave was rebuilt by the Normans. In the later twelfth century, a unique two-storey sanctuary was built, fitted into the existing structure of the chancel. The timber balustrade to the upper sanctuary chapel, from about 1180, is said to be the oldest decorative timberwork surviving in Britain."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2012 ny Len Williams [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2905699] [accessed 21 October 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - east end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Compton: The Parish Church of St. Nicholas: The 12th century sanctuary from the chancel. This two storied sanctuary set into the chancel is the only one left in England."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4548587] [accessed 21 October 2015]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas, Compton. Spectacular Saxon and Norman architectural gem in West Surrey. The double sanctuary on the east end is extra special."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2008 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/856491] [accessed 21 October 2015]

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: engraving in Hussey (1852)

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Compton: The Parish Church of St. Nicholas: The nave and chancel from the west. Mighty Norman arches dominate the 11th century nave; the pulpit was made around 1620."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4548563] [accessed 21 October 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2008 by Colin Smith

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view of font

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view of font in context

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4548676] [accessed 21 October 2015]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2017 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05212COM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: 45 The Street, Compton, Surrey, GU3 1EG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1483 810148

Country Name: England

Location: Surrey, South East

Directions to Site: Located about 5 km WSW of Guilford on the A3, just S of the fork off the A31

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford

Historical Region: Hundred of Godalming [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of the nave

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Transitional?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his June 2008 photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Compton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU9547/compton/] [accessed 7 May 2015], and it mentions a church in it. A font here is noted in Allen (1831): "The font is a square basin supported by a round pillar." Allen also notes that a church existed here in Saxon times, "as appears by the return of the inquest at the time of the general survey" [Domesday?]. Described in Brayley (1850): "The font is old, and of unusual form; the upper part being square (with a basin for immersion), but having its sides and angles chamfered down to connect it with a low round basement, or pedestal." Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font is coeval with the edifice, of peculiar shape, but not fine" [Hussey (ibid.) dates the church to the late-Norman or Transitional period]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font of the 13th century; the basin is shaped like a prism with a square top and bevelled corners at the bottom to meet the ring of the round stem of the base; the lower volume of the base and the plinth are quadrangular. In the Victoria County History, Surrey (1911): "The church was mentioned in the Domesday Survey of Compton. [...] In the centre of the nave at its western end is the large font of late 12th-century date. The design is peculiar, and looks like a rude imitation of a Venetian well-head, the bowl being shaped as a capital, square at the top with the angles canted off to a circular necking. This rests upon a short circular stem and base, and the whole upon a square table and chamfered plinth."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.214425, -0.634882

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 12′ 51.93″ N, 0° 38′ 5.57″ W

UTM: 30U 665183 5676328

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, plain

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-07-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Allen, Thomas, A History of the County of Surrey ; comprising every object of topographical, geological, or historical interest, London: Isaac Taylor Hinton, 1831

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A topographical history of Surrey, London: G. Willis, 1850

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852