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
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Fishpond Church (St John the Baptist), Whitchurch Canonicorum
- OS grid reference
- SY 366 983
- Coordinates
- 50.78095, -2.89964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fishpond Church, also known as St John the Baptist, is a Chapel of Ease built in 1854, located in Whitchurch Canonicorum. It is a single-cell structure with rubble walls featuring stone dressings and stone gable copings, topped with a slate roof. The church has a rectangular plan and is one storey high, comprising four bays with paired lancet windows. There is a porch on the north side, which has a stone gable coping and a pitched slate roof, adorned with a stone cross at the apex. The east window consists of three lancets.
Inside, the roof has a low pitch supported by collar beam trusses that are bolted through, with one set of purlins and a ridge-piece. Wall shafts are carried on plain corbels. Notable fittings include a small octagonal font with an octagonal stem and base from the 19th century, and stained glass by A E Buss from 1967, which is semi-abstract. The altar room features flooring made of rough and polished slate squares designed by John Stark and Partners in 1963.
Above the porch entrance, there is an inscription in capitals that reads: "Him That Cometh Unto Me I Will In No Wise Cast Out."
Local climate
Fishpond Church (St John the Baptist) receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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