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| Keywords: in focus infocus too dark toodark medium quality mediumquality indoor architecture building With the exception of the west tower, the church was rebuilt, with Benjamin Ferrey as architect, in 1838. "Now the point is that Dec as a choice, a polygonal apse as a choice, and the more general tendency to let a village church appear 'real', i.e. a real medieval village church, is always connected with Pugin and Scott. But neither did this sort of thing before 1840. So here is a riddle, and Compton Valence may turn out to be of more than local significance..." 'Dorset' Pevsner & Newman. "..A later owner of the village, Robert Williams Esq. of Bridehead at Little Bredy, took it upon himself to restore the church [at Compton Valence], employing Christchurch architect Benjamin Ferrey to carry out the work in 1838. Following a design in the early Victorian Gothic revival style, Ferrey lengthened the nave, added a North aisle and reconstructed the chancel, giving it an apse-shaped end wall. When the work was complete, Williams held a celebratory dinner on 29 September 1840, 'of which all the workers and every person in the parish partook.’ " www.opcdorset.org/Compton/ComptonValence/ComptonValence.htm "Robert Williams was a keen Tractarian in his youth, but a close friendship with John Henry Newman at Oxford did not survive the latter's conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1845: indeed Williams seems to have reacted violently in the opposite direction - he apparently destroyed all correspondence from Newman, to the loss of his subsequent archivists..." www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/little_bredy.htm With the exception of the west tower, the church was rebuilt, with Benjamin Ferrey as architect, in 1838. "Now the point is that Dec as a choice, a polygonal apse as a choice, and the more general tendency to let a village church appear 'real', i.e. a real medieval village church, is always connected with Pugin and Scott. But neither did this sort of thing before 1840. So here is a riddle, and Compton Valence may turn out to be of more than local significance..." 'Dorset' Pevsner & Newman. "..A later owner of the village, Robert Williams Esq. of Bridehead at Little Bredy, took it upon himself to restore the church [at Compton Valence], employing Christchurch architect Benjamin Ferrey to carry out the work in 1838. Following a design in the early Victorian Gothic revival style, Ferrey lengthened the nave, added a North aisle and reconstructed the chancel, giving it an apse-shaped end wall. When the work was complete, Williams held a celebratory dinner on 29 September 1840, 'of which all the workers and every person in the parish partook.’ " www.opcdorset.org/Compton/ComptonValence/ComptonValence.htm "Robert Williams was a keen Tractarian in his youth, but a close friendship with John Henry Newman at Oxford did not survive the latter's conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1845: indeed Williams seems to have reacted violently in the opposite direction - he apparently destroyed all correspondence from Newman, to the loss of his subsequent archivists..." www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/little_bredy.htm | ||||
