Fenny Compton / Contone [Domesday]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2008 by Walwyn [www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/2975985446/] [accessed 5 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 27 March 2009]
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2008 by Walwyn [www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/2975279583/] [accessed 5 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 27 March 2009]
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19626FEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Clare
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, against the blocked W door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Clare
Church Address: Church Street, Fenny Compton, Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, CV47 2YE
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km E of Kineton, 18 km SE of Leamington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Hunesberi [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disused font? [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for [Fenny] Compton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP4152/fenny-compton/] [accessed 5 January 2015], one of which, in the lordship of Gilbert of Wormleighton, reports a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "Henry I confirmed to the Priory of Kenilworth the grant of the church of Compton of the fee of Ralph le Boteler (Pincerne) of Leicester. [...] The earliest features in the building are the chancel arch and part of the north arcade, dating from c. 1320–30 [...] The font has a modern bowl on an old circular stem and base; an old plain tapering bowl, now lying loose, was probably the original." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP4168852157] (1967) reports: "Font has C19 bowl on old cylindrical stem and square base."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 609995 5780676
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.1656, -1.391755
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 9′ 56.16″ N, 1° 23′ 30.32″ W