ST6376 : Fishponds parish church

near to Broomhill, City of Bristol, Great Britain

Fishponds parish church
Fishponds parish church
An 1847 visitor to Fishponds wrote of the spire that
"they have constructed a lightning conductor, which is ingeniously carried down outside the edifice from apex to base - a somewhat singular circumstance, from which I conclude that the parish authorities - apprehensive lest the electric fluid, in envy of so fair a structure, should entertain a pointed and particular spite against the spire of Fishponds - have taken every possible means in their power to protect so sublime and symmetrical an object from the effects of "oak-cleaving thunderbolts".

However since the church was upgraded from a chapel in 1869 I am not sure whether this is the same spire or not.

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Date Taken
Tuesday, 15 July, 2008
Submitted
Thursday, 17 July, 2008
Category
Church   (find more nearby)
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! ST 632 760 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:28.9323N 2:31.8022W
Photographer Location
OSGB36: geotagged! ST 632 760
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