Compton Greenfield / Contone

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view of church exterior - south portal
view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior in context - south view
Scene Description: the sundial in the centre of the path is said to include parts of the 15thC font of this church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ky Devas, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2015 by Ky Devas in Geocaching [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=d2ecd558-8095-48bf-9804-0b87f7c389ef&IID=cd8e001f-1443-4645-a06a-9a65cd1825d5] [accessed 7 May 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13353COM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: off Farm Lane, Compton Greenfield, South Gloucestershire, BS35 5RZ
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the B4055, just NE of East Compton, NW of the Bristol Golf Course, 10 km NW of Bristol
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Bentry [in Domesday]
Date: ca. 1170?
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Compton [Greenfield] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5782/compton-greenfield/] [accessed 7 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) note that during the extensive and expensive restoration of 1924 "all internal walls were scraped […] the octagonal Perp[endicular] font was probably also renewed". [NB: the present Church of All Saints had been re-built in the 1850s but dated originally to ca. 1170, according to the English Heritage entry [Listing NGR: ST5708682226] (1960); it reports an octagonal Perpendicular font with wooden cover in it [cf. supra]; we have no information on the original font of this church -- the church itself underwent a major renovation in the 1850s and restored again in the 1920s]. Janet Hiscocks, in the B&AFHS [Bristol & Avon Damily History Society] Journal, 135 ( March 2009) notes: "In 1892 when the ancient west door was reopened, the remains of an old font were discovered. Parts of this original font were used for the upped portion of the sundial pedestal in “first” Churchyard extension."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.537054, -2.621364
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 32′ 13.39″ N, 2° 37′ 16.91″ W
UTM: 30U 526261 5709618
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002