Compton Abdale / Compton Magna / Cuntune / Great Compton
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 19th-century (?) font
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13869COM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Church Patron Saints: St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Church Location: Compton Abdale, Gloucestershire, GL54 4DS
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located S of the A40, 5 km WNW of Northleach, 13 km ESE of Cheltenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester [formerly in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol]
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley
Date: ca. 1291?
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this church and modern font.
Church Notes: "The church of ST. OSWALD was recorded by that dedication, taken from the mother church of the parish at Gloucester, from 1497." [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Compton [Abdale] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP0616/compton-abdale/] [accessed 7 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) note: "Font. Chalice-shaped, perhaps early C19." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 9, 2001) notes: "The church at Compton Abdale was recorded from 1291, when it was a chapel to St. Oswald's church and priory at Gloucester. [...] There are no obvious survivals from the church which existed by the late 13th century." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The present font consists of an octagonal basin with a pronounced moulding at the upper rim, a crenellated underbowl that appears to nest the bowl into it, and a splaying octagonal pedestal base moulded at both ends. The polygonal plinth may be the original one belonging to the old font [now disappeared?]. The wooden cover is octagonal and almost flat, with a knob handle [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.847877,
-1.915464
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 50′ 52.36″ N,
1° 54′ 55.67″ W
UTM: 30U 574705 5744675
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002