Compton Dando / Contone
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Standing permission
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13362COM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-carved?] / 19th century (late?), Norman [altered?] / Victorian?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 2 Church Lane, Compton Dando, Bath and North East Somerset BS39 4LA
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? the original font of this church
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 534000 5692123
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.379333, -2.511462
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 22′ 45.6″ N, 2° 30′ 41.26″ W
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, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 1 March 2008]