Fishpond Church (St John the Baptist)
FISHPOND CHURCH (ST JOHN THE BAPTIST)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227787
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Fishpond Church (St John the Baptist)
- Statutory Address:
- FISHPOND CHURCH (ST JOHN THE BAPTIST)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227787
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Fishpond Church (St John the Baptist)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FISHPOND CHURCH (ST JOHN THE BAPTIST)
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FISHPOND CHURCH (ST JOHN THE BAPTIST)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch Canonicorum
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 36671 98317
Details
SY 39 NE WHITCHURCH CANONICORUM FISHPOND
2/164 Fishpond Church (St John the Baptist)
- II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402236
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 263
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 205
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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