Church Of Saint Anne

The Church of Saint Anne is a church built in 1854 by William Hayley, with significant alterations and expansions made in 1860, 1864, and 1887 by John Lowe, and a baptistery added in 1960. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church has a nave with aisles, a north-west tower, west baptistery transepts, and a chancel with vestries and an organ chamber. Architectural details include a projecting plinth, sill mould, coped parapet, and gables with kneelers, all in the Victorian Gothic style. The nave and aisles each have four bays with pitched roofs, and each bay contains a 2 or 3-light window featuring curvilinear tracery and weathered buttresses. The baptistery is semi-octagonal and one storey high, adorned with crocketed pinnacles. The two-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, enriched gablets, 2-light belfry openings, an enriched eaves band, a castellated parapet, heavy corner pinnacles, and a spire with lucarnes and a weathercock. The transepts have raked parapets, with the north transept featuring a 3-light window beneath a crocketed ogee hoodmould. The chancel consists of two bays and the sanctuary has one bay with a 5-light east window and bold pinnacles. Inside, the church has a double-chamfered nave arcade supported by twin thin cast iron columns from 1854, featuring enriched capitals and a pierced cast iron valence. The roof has arch-braced collar trusses with arcading, and there is a quadripartite vault over the crossing. The north transept houses a replacement organ, and the interior includes a carved timber pulpit, choir stalls, and altar table, along with stained glass and remnants of wall paintings.