Compton Dando / Contone

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

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Results: 6 records

NéA: view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neil Owen, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2013 by Neil Owen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3614491] [accessed 7 May 2015]

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design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: re-cut? / new font?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Day, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2015 by Michael Day [www.flickr.com/photos/13706945@N00/17048299245/] [accessed 7 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - east view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChurchCrawler, 2002

Image Source: photograph taken in November 2002 by ChurchCrawler [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Compton_Dando_(Somerset)_Church_of_St_Mary_-_geograph.org.uk_-_67721.jpg] [accessed 9 May 2015]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Day, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2015 by Michael Day [www.flickr.com/photos/13706945@N00/16425844064/] [accessed 7 May 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13362COM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 2 Church Lane, Compton Dando, Bath and North East Somerset BS39 4LA
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A39, 9 km WSW of Bath
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Keynsham [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-carved?] / 19th century (late?), Norman [altered?] / Victorian?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
There is an entry for Compton [Dando] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST6464/compton-dando/] [accessed 7 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Wade and Wade (1929) report a "Norm[an] font" in this church. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: ST6456664655] (1956) has: "Pulpit and font of 1883"]. The present font in the Church of St. Mary is a square cushion-capital type, modern in appearance; this may be due to a total and drastic re-carving of the older font, and the addition of a new cylindrical stem, and quadrangular lower base and plinth; the lead lining is also modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.379333, -2.511462
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 22′ 45.6″ N, 2° 30′ 41.26″ W
UTM: 30U 534000 5692123

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lining

REFERENCES

Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929