Church Of St Anne

The Church of St Anne is a chapel of ease built between 1846 and 1848, designed by William Thompson and constructed by William Edgar. It stands on the site of an earlier medieval chapel and incorporates a community centre since 1985. The church is built of coursed squared sandstone with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings, topped with a graduated Lakeland slate roof featuring stone gable copings.

The building is in the Early English style, with a plan including a chancel with a north organ chamber and a south vestry, a four-bay aisled nave with a south porch, and a west belfry. The east elevation has three lancet windows to the chancel, boarded doors, and a straight-headed vestry door. The south elevation features a three-light vestry window with a low gable and stone cross finial. The west elevation showcases stepped buttresses, a boarded central door in a moulded surround, and a corbelled octagonal belfry topped with a stone spirelet and arcaded lancet louvres.

Inside, the church is plastered with ashlar arcades and dressings. The chancel and porch have waggon roofs, while the nave features arch braced trusses. The dripstrings of the double-chamfered pointed arches of the nave arcades are moulded, with capitals on octagonal piers. The south arcade has been blocked and a glazed screen with filleted mullions and transoms now forms part of the community centre. A pointed chancel arch is supported by shafts. There is a Gothic wood screen filling the organ arch to the north aisle.

The interior features chancel panelling, a reredos with blind tracery and high cresting, and painted panels. The organ arch has Perpendicular tracery. Other notable fittings include an octagonal font dated 1892, a choir stall with poppyheads and pierced tracery, and nave pews with shaped ends and nailhead decoration. Heraldic glass, including the arms of Bishop Cosin in the west windows, is set in clear lights. An east window memorializes John and Ellen Proud. The church was initially funded by public subscription, including a significant contribution from Bishop Maltby.