Geograph - photograph every grid square

The west end of Compton churchyard is somewhat hemmed in, almost in the shadow of Eastbury Manor - and it took a little while to find a spot from which I could get a shot of the whole tower and spire.

It must be rare for a church tower to be quite so bare of adornment, but - to my mind - the result is a memorable one. Much of the church is Norman, but Pevsner speculates that the tower could be Anglo-Saxon work - on the grounds that the Normans could not have resisted making it more ornate (Nairn. Pevsner & Cherry: 'The Buildings of England: Surrey').

The materials used are typical of Surrey - Bargate stone for the tower, shingles (wooden tiles) for the spire. Seen from a moderate distance just two colours predominate: the olive-tinged stone contrasting with the blue-grey of the shingles. At close range a variety of colours can be seen in the stonework: Link