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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Compton

Surrey

C11 tower with .C12, Romanesque alterations to chancel, enlargement of nave circa 1180 and further small alterations in C14, C15 and C19

Architectural Features

C13 lancet windows in aisles alternating with foiled head, two-light aisle windows

Decorated window to east end of south aisle, C19 triangular, tile hung, hipped roof, dormers on south side of nave roof with one dormer in chancel to north and penticed roof addition to north side

C12 south door in gabled porch with round order and one order of chevron zig-zag moulding to surround

The small room to the south of the upper chamber contains a wooden staircase and a Norman window on the south wall and is thought to have been originally a cell or oratory

Fittings: Upper chancel chamber: altered and re-set piscina, moved in C12 alterations

Guard rail - late C12 with simple round arched arcade on elegant thin stems with crocketed capitals, badly worn

Altar rails, tower screen (formerly across the chancel) and pulpit are all Jacobean, circa 1620

Pulpit panelled with strapwork decoration and sounding board above, all very ornate

Early Norman font: square bowl above a big circular stem and ring

Stained glass: small trefoil roundel in east wall of lower chapel showing Virgin and child, possibly C13

Also some fragments of C17 glass remaining

Monuments: north aisle wall - C14 arched, cusped wall recesses, one depressed

South porch, west wall: monument to Edward Fulham, Canon of Windsor

Died 1694, monument erected 1778