Nether Compton
| Nether Compton | |
| Dorset | |
|---|---|
 Nether Compton parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | ST598173 |
| Location: | 50°57’15"N, 2°34’27"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 328 (2011) |
| Post town: | Sherborne |
| Postcode: | DT9 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Dorset |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
West Dorset |
Nether Compton is a village in Dorset, situated approximately three miles west of Sherborne and three miles east of Yeovil in Somerset. The 2011 census recorded a parish population of 328.
History
Nether Compton was burnt in 1066 by William the Bastard during his conquest of England.
The parish church of St. Nicholas has a 13th-century chancel, nave and south porch. The west tower, north chapel and nave windows demonstrate that the church was altered significantly in the 15th century. The whole building was then restored in the 1880s, when the chapel was extended and various internal modifications made.[1] The stone screen is Perpendicular Gothic and the pulpit early 17th century.[2] The west tower houses five bells: one from the 15th century (Salisbury foundry, inscribed "Sit Semper Sine Ve Qui Michi Dicit Ave"), one dated 1585, two dated 1658 (Thomas Purdue, Closworth) and one from 1886 (Gillett and Co., Croydon).[3]
Many of the buildings in the village date from when it was improved in the last decades of the 19th century, Colonel John R. P. Goodden having inherited Compton House in 1883. The architect Evelyn Hellicar (1862–1929) is responsible for a number of the buildings.[4] These include Sheriff's Lodge (1889). The Grade II listed former village school, built c. 1843, is now a private home.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Nether Compton) |
- Dorset OPC - Nether and Over Compton
References
- ↑ Nether Compton: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1, pages 100-101
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09598-2page 304
- ↑ Christopher Dalton, Bells and Belfries of Dorset, Ullingswick: Upper Court Press, 2000-2005, vol. 2, pp. 491-494. See also the relevant page of the online Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers
- ↑ Hellicar obituary, RIBA Journal, 21 September 1929, p. 772
