Fishpond Church (St John The Baptist) is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1984. Church.

Fishpond Church (St John The Baptist)

WRENN ID: tall-gateway-heath
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Dorset
Country: England
Date first listed: 10 January 1984
Type: Church
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SY 39 NE WHITCHURCH CANONICORUM FISHPOND

2/164 Fishpond Church (St John the Baptist)

Chapel of Ease, to Whitchurch. 1854. Single cell. Rubble walls with stone dressings and stone gable copings. Slate roof. Sanctus Bell at west gable end. Rectangular plan. One storey. 4 bays. Paired lancet windows. Porch on north side with stone gable coping and pitched slate roof. Stone cross at apex. East window of 3 lancets. Interior: roof of low pitch with collar beam trusses bolted through. One set of purlins and ridge-piece. Wall shafts carried on plain corbels. Fittings: small octagonal font with octagonal stem and base, C-19. Stained glass, semi-abstract by A E Buss, 1967. Altar room flooring of rough and polished slate squares by John Stark and Partners, 1963.

Inscription in capitals over porch entrance: "Him That Cometh Unto Me I Will In No Wise Cast Out". "RCHM, Dorset I", p 263 (2). "N Pevsner, Dorset", p 205.

Listing NGR: SY3667198317

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