Compton Abbas / Cuntone / East Compton

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design element - motifs - foliage - 4

Scene Description: at the angles of the square lower base of the re-carved font

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: the re-carved font

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: the re-carved font

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: the re-carved font

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "At the church gate, East Compton. Post box and mounting block outside the gate of the ruined Church of St Marys."

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: the old church -- Source caption: "The remains of St Mary's Church, East Compton. The tower is all that remains of this 14th century church."

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the modern church -- Source caption: "St Mary's Church, Compton Abbas. The church was built in 1868 in the 'Early English' style."

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the old church

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: the old church

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Image Source: photograph taken in 1998 by Chris Downer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/503994] [accessed 7 May 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, St Mary's Church. The font is 12th century but was recut in the 19th century."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11295COM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [originally from the old church nearby]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Main Road, Compton Abbas, Dorset, SP7 0NL
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km S of Shaftesbury [the old church remains are located in East Compton; the new church is near the centre of West Compton].
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Sixpenny [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
There is an entry for Compton [Abbas] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST8618/compton-abbas/] [accessed 7 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The ancient font is still preserved. Its circular basin of green sandstone, which seems to be Norman, is covered with a pattern of foliage running round it. A new base and stem of suitable character have been added." Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font perhaps of the Norman period. Mee (1939) notes "the font bowl from the old church, carved with twining stems." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Norman, of cauldron shape. The bowl is decorated with long trails, quite lucidly arranged. Base with spurs." [NB: the font was moved from the old church to the new one in 1866 -- only the tower of the old church survives now].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.967941, -2.178673
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 58′ 4.59″ N, 2° 10′ 43.22″ W
UTM: 30U 557671 5646581

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (green) [basin only]
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal ornamentation

REFERENCES

Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; r["References"]
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972