Compton Valence (St. Thomas à Becket)

Church of St. Thomas à Becket (St. Thomas of Canterbury), Compton Valence, Dorset

Sources:

• Dorset Historic Churches Trust, Dorset Churches. [Dorchester]: DHCT, 1988, p. 22.
• John Hutchins, The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd ed., edited by William Shipp and J.W. Hodson, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873, Vol. x, pp. x.
• Arthur Mee, ed., Dorset: Thomas Hardy's country. The King's England. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, pp. 70-71.
• John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner, The buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p.160.
• F.P. Pitfield, Dorset parish churches, A-D. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1981, pp. 200-201.
• Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. 1, West Dorset. London: HMSO, 1952, pp. 104-105.

Bells:

4, 3rd by George Purdue, 1620; 4th by Thomas Purdue, 1676.

Church of St. Thomas à Becket (St. Thomas of Canterbury), Compton Valence, Dorset

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