Church Of St Ann

The Church of St Ann is a Roman Catholic church built between 1862 and 1867 by Edward Welby Pugin. It is constructed from rock-faced stone and features a slate roof. The church includes a nave, aisle passages, a north-west tower, and a small polygonal apse. The nave and aisles have nine bays, with a projecting plinth, weathered buttresses, and 2-light aisle windows that feature Geometrical tracery. The clerestory windows are circular and have carved stops on the hoodmoulds. The apse, which continues the nave roof, has similar windows to those in the aisles but is set below gablets. There are plain water spouts, and the west rose window incorporates a Crucifixus. The west door leads into the church.

The tower is three stages high and includes a north door, tall lancet windows, quatrefoil windows, arched belfry openings beneath gable hoodmoulds, and plain pinnacles at each corner of the spire. A carved panel at the base of the church depicts the donors, Sir Humphrey and Lady Annette de Trafford, kneeling and holding a representation of the church.

Inside, the church features moulded nave arcade arches supported by circular columns with delicately carved foliated capitals. The roof has scissor-braced trusses, and the apse boasts an elaborately painted vault. There is a sculpted reredos and figures beneath canopies on either side of the chancel arch.