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Compton Beauchamp, Oxfordshire - St Swithin
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delightful small, white church in an idyllic woody, hilly setting
on a beautiful day.
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Click
photos to enlarge
Notes in italics from Oxfordshire by Jennifer Sherwood and
Nikolaus Pevsner
(1974) Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
Built of chalk. Nave and chancel, transepts, and thin unbuttressed
W tower with pyramid roof. |
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tower seems C13, see the low and narrow arch to the nave |
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C13
also the chancel, see the N lancet. |
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The
E window is Dec with reticulated tracery |
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The gay chancel painting with vine trails and, in the window
jambs, palm fronds is not rustic Regency, but by Lydia Lawrence,
c.1900.
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Compton House hard by the church. This face c.1710, the rest
older. |
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