Compton Verney / Compton Murdach / Compton Murdak / Contone

There are two entries for Compton [Verney] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3052/compton-verney/] [accessed 6 January 2015], one of which, in the lordship of the Count of Meulan, mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "The church of Compton was given by Henry de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, to St. Mary's Collegiate Church at Warwick as a prebend for the support of a canon." [i.e., Henry de Beaumont, (aka de Newburgh), 1st Earl of Warwick (died 1119)]. David Ross, of Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/warwickshire/churches/compton-verney.htm] [accessed 6 January 2015] writes: "In 1768 the 14th Lord Willoighby de Broke called in Capabilty Brown to design a landscape garden for his mansion of Compton Verney. Brown's design called for the lake below the house to be widened, creating a broad, unbroken vista below the house. There was only one problem with Brown's plan; the medieval family chapel was in the way. Brown demolished the chapel to make for his new garden layout, but thankfully he salvaged many of the family monuments from the medieval chapel. These monuments were incorporated in a new chapel behind the mansion house. The chapel was begun in 1776 and finished in 1779.