Compton / Cantone / Cantune / Cumyngton / Cuntone / Cuntune

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".