Church Of St Ann

The Church of St Ann is a Grade I listed parish church located on City Road in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was constructed between 1764 and 1768 by architect William Newton for the Corporation of Newcastle. The church is built from sandstone ashlar and features a Lakeland slate roof. It has a rectangular shape with a west porch and a shallow east apse, along with a west tower above the nave.

The entrance is marked by three steps leading up to a Tuscan tetrastyle porch with a pediment. Above the panelled double door is a large overlight with glazing bars. The west elevation features a top pediment, above which is a square clock tower with a floor band and a cornice adorned with urn finials. The clock tower has two narrow octagonal stages that include arched recesses with impost strings and cornices, topped by a stone spire.

The church has four nave windows and three apse windows, all of which are round-headed with glazing bars. The nave windows were reduced in the 19th century. The exterior is finished with a gutter cornice and a coped parapet.

Inside, the church has painted plaster above a boarded dado and a renewed panelled plaster ceiling. The apse features a high panelled dado and a reredos designed in 1911 by Ricks and Charlewood in a classical style, supported by Corinthian attached columns and a broken dentilled pediment. The west bay contains a south vestry and a north choir vestry, flanking the entrance bay.

Notable monuments within the church include a low-relief urn on a mount by Davies commemorating Joseph Crawhall, who served as mayor and sheriff of Newcastle and died in 1853, as well as a bracketed Frosterly marble surround for a plaque in memory of George Clifford, who also died in 1853. There is a Gothic-style stone memorial plaque on the east wall by Pearson dedicated to George Heriot, the first vicar. The Church of St Ann was built as a chapel of ease to All Saints and replaced a medieval chapel.