The west tower, north chapel and nave windows demonstrate that the church was altered significantly in the 15th century.

[3] The west tower houses five bells: one from the 15th century (Salisbury foundry, inscribed "Sit Semper Sine Ve Qui Michi Dicit Ave"), one dated 1585, two dated 1658 (Thomas Purdue, Closworth) and one from 1886 (Gillett and Co., Croydon).

[4] Many of the buildings in the village date from when it was improved in the last decades of the 19th century[citation needed], Colonel John R. P. Goodden having inherited Compton House in 1883.

Harald Penrose (1904-1996), British test pilot and aviation author, lived in Nether Compton for more than fifty years in a house of his own design.

[7] Over Compton was the childhood home of Silicon Valley entrepreneur and award-winning designer Joseph Oliver (formerly Poynter, foster child of Peter and Catherine McQueen).