Parish Church of St Michael
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, COMPTON PARK
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119361
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, COMPTON PARK
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 1999-08-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/00101/07
- Rights:
- © Mr Brian Haigh. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119361
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, COMPTON PARK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, COMPTON PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Over Compton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59463 16894
Details
OVER COMPTON ST 5816-5916 COMPTON PARK 14/92 Parish Church of 31.7.61 St Michael GV I Parish Church. Nave rebuilt C15. West tower, early C15. North chapel (Goodden pew) added in 1776 by Robert Goodden. He extensively restored the church in 1821-2, adding the north vestry and the baptistery. Chancel extensively restored in 1877. Ashlar stone walls. Clay-tile roofs (nave), and stone slate roof (chancel). Stone gable-copings with rolls. Nave has C15 windows, each of 3 cinquefoiled lights in a square head, with a label and returned stops; the eastern window of the south wall has head-stops. West tower, of 3 stages with an embattled parapet, pinnacles and gargoyles. West doorway has moulded jambs and 4-centred arch in a square head, with a label and head-stops of a king and bishop. The west window is of 3 cinque- foiled ogee lights with vertical tracery in a pointed-arch head, moulded reveals and a label. The bell-chamber has in each wall, a window of 2 cinquefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in a 2-centred head, with a label. Chancel, rebuilt C19. Dressed stone walls with massive buttresses and set-offs. Stone slate roof with stone gable-coping and cross at apex. East window, of 3 lights with trefoil-cusped heads and panel-tracery over. Returned label. South doorway has moulded jambs and pointed head with label. Plank-and-muntin door. North chapel, roughcast walls and clay- tiled roof, coped. Buttresses on the east side. North windows, of 3 lights with cinquefoil ogival cusping and panel tracery over, great casement moulding and separate label. North vestry, off chancel, C19, with pointed north doorway and plank-and-muntin door. South chapel, rough- cast walls and tile roof with stone coping. 2-light window, trefoil-cusped and quatrefoil in head. Interior: roofs have compartmented barrel-vaults with carved call bosses at the intersections, stone angel corbels, C15. Fittings: Font, octagonal bowl with quatrefoil panels, initials and date N. B., C, W. 1620 on rim. Pulpit hexagonal with moulded framing and enriched cornice panelled sides, C17, and reader's pew, C17. Monuments: in north chapel to Goodden family, notably to Robert Goodden 1828, white marble standing figure on a pedestal, possibly by Flaxman. To Robert Goodden, 1764, and Abigail his wife, erected by their son Robert in 1777, black-and- white marble wall monument. Numerous monuments to Gooddens and Bicknells in north chapel and south chapel (baptistery). Five hatchments in N. chapel and nave. Communion table, with turned legs and enriched top rails, C17. (RCHM, Dorset i, p 103(1)).
Listing NGR: ST5945816895
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105634
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 103
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 09-Jun-2026 at 10:01:49.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.