Compton Bishop / Comptone

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LB01: design element - motifs - spur - 4

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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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view of font and cover - south side

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view of font and cover - southeast side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09962COM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Lane, Compton Bishop, Somerset, BS262HF

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located 3 km W of Axbridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Winterstoke

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

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font.

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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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.2945, -2.8676

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 17′ 40.2″ N, 2° 52′ 3.36″ W

UTM: 30U 509232 5682584

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958

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