Compton Bishop / Comptone
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Results: 7 records
LB01: design element - motifs - spur - 4
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view of font and cover - southeast side
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view of font and cover - south side
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover in the context of the west end of the nave
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09962COM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside de church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Church Lane, Compton Bishop, Somerset, BS262HF
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km W of Axbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Winterstoke
Additional Comments: disappeared font? the one from the earlier church?
Font Notes:
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The Hundred of Winterstoke appears in Domesday with 28 entries [http://opendomesday.org/hundred/winterstoke/] [accessed 7 May 2015], but Compton Bishop is not one of with an individual entry. A font here is described in Rutter (1829): "The font is plain and circular." The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland for 1868 mentions a font in this locality as one of the few traces left of its Norman church. Wade & Wade (1929) report: "The church contains a Norm[an] font (with a wooden cover dated 1617)". Pevsner (1958) mentions the font cover "dated 1617", but not the font. The Crook Peak Parish [www.crookpeakparish.org.uk/index.asp?pageid=78582] [accessed 10 September 2009] informs: "This church was dedicated by Bishop Jocelin on 13th July 1236 and legal documents show that Compton Church was given to Wells Cathedral in or before 1228. The south doorway and the font were however made for a church at least a century older […] The font is Norman and probably the oldest object in the church." The basin is cylindrical and has a chamfered underbowl, all plain; on a short cylindrical stem and a square lower base with spurs at the angles, and a circular plinth; the lining of the inner basin well is modern. The wooden cover is round and flat with radial arrises and an urn finial decorated with oak branches.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 509232 5682584
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.2945, -2.8676
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 17′ 40.2″ N, 2° 52′ 3.36″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1617? / Jacobean
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/ComptonBishop/index.html] [accessed 12 March 2008]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 174
- 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, p. 165
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 12 March 2008]