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Church of St John the Baptist, Bristol (located at 51°27′21″N 2°35′43″W / 51.45583, -2.59528) is a church at the lower end of Broad Street Bristol, England.
The church was built in the 14th century with the tower and steeple over St John's Gate, the last remaining city gateway. The church is very narrow as it is built into and alongside the city walls. Consequently it is also known as St John's on the Wall.[1] Beneath the church is a vaulted crypt. A conduit has supplied water from Brandon Hill since 1374.[2]
It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.[3]
After the bombing of St Mary le Port Church in 1940 the congregation of this historically evangelical, Protestant and Calvinist church, and their rector, William Dodgson-Sykes, moved to St John on the Wall Church, where the congregation remained, in gradually declining numbers, until the building was closed for worship by the Church Commissioners in 1984 (after a protracted struggle by the congregation). The remaining congregation then moved to the Chapel of Foster's Almshouses, and joined the Church of England (Continuing) in 1995 [1]. The C of E (Continuing) no longer lists a congregation in Bristol - some of the congregation joined with the new Free Presbyterian Church (Ulster) congregation in Horfield, Bristol.
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