ST6376 : Fishponds parish church
near to Broomhill, City of Bristol, Great Britain

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.
The whole account is worth reading Link
"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.
The whole account is worth reading Link
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- ST6376, 11 images (find more images nearby)
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- ceridwen (find more nearby)
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- Date Taken
- Tuesday, 15 July, 2008
- Submitted
- Thursday, 17 July, 2008
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- Church (find more nearby)
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
ST 632 760 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:28.9323N 2:31.8022W - Photographer Location
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OSGB36:
ST 632 760 - View Direction
- SOUTH (about 180 degrees)
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