Fenny Compton, Warwickshire

Description
Fenny Compton, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, on the Oxford Canal, with a station on the G.W.K., and another on the E. and W. Junction railway, 6 miles E of Kineton, and 11 SE of Leamington, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leamington. Acreage, 2163 ; population, 568. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £420 with residence. Patron, Corpus Christ! College, Oxford. The church belonged to the priory of Kenilworth. It was built in the 14th century, and restored in 1879. It has a clerestoried nave of five bays, some remains of the old rood loft, a piscina and an aumbrey. The north door bears traces of the civil war in the shape of bullet marks. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Aymer, afterwards Bishop of Winchester in the time of Henry III., was rector; and Sir H. B. Dudley was a native.