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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2009 by Peter Facey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1235350] [accessed 7 May 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - northwest corner

Scene Description: the top of the font can be seen through the middle arch, beneath the hanging bell rope

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3427261] [accessed 7 May 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern cover atop

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3429855] [accessed 7 May 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: against the west wall of the north aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3429855] [accessed 7 May 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17625COM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Carmans Lane, Compton, Hampshire SO21 2AT

Country Name: England

Location: Hampshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located W of Winchester, E of Salisbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester

Historical Region: Hundred of Buddlesgate -- Hundred of Somborne [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle, W end

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for this Compton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3429/compton/], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The church of All Saints is a small twelfth-century building [...] The fittings of the church are for the most part modern, [...] in the north porch is a relic of the old order of things, now happily past, in the shape of a blue china bowl which did duty at baptisms till within modern times." The British Listed Buildings database [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-145774-all-saints-church-compton-and-shawford] [accessed 29 August 2011] entry for this church reports: "Norman font; square with rounded top on central pillar with 4 corner columns." The Southern Live web site [http://southernlife.org.uk/compchur.htm] [accessed 29 August 2011], too, confirms : "The only other survival of the Norman church in situ is the simple, sturdy twelfth-century font".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.02832, -1.334172

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 1′ 41.95″ N, 1° 20′ 3.02″ W

UTM: 30U 616816 5654295

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Apparatus: no

Notes: modern shape of four straight ribs with round paltform

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.