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Latitude: 50.781 / 50°46'51"N
Longitude: -2.8996 / 2°53'58"W
OS Eastings: 336671
OS Northings: 98317
OS Grid: SY366983
Mapcode National: GBR PK.F2RR
Mapcode Global: FRA 47T0.VKF
Plus Code: 9C2VQ4J2+95
Entry Name: Fishpond Church (St John the Baptist)
Listing Date: 10 January 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1227787
English Heritage Legacy ID: 402236
Also known as: St John's Church, Fishpond Bottom
St John
ID on this website: 101227787
Location: Fishpond Bottom, Dorset, DT6
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Whitchurch Canonicorum
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Whitchurch Canonicorum with Stanton St Gabriel and Fishpond St Candida and Holy Cross
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Church building
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
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