Church Of St Ann

STRETFORD CHESTER ROAD SJ 79 SE (SJ 7994 NE) (south-east side) 5/14 Church of St. Ann - G.V. II Roman Catholic Church. 1862-7. By Edward Welby Pugin. Rock-faced stone with slate roof. Nave, aisle passages, north-west tower and small polygonal apse. 9-bay nave and aisles with projecting plinth, weathered buttresses, 2-light aisle windows with Geometrical tracery and circular clerestory windows with carved stops to hoodmoulds. Apse below continuation of nave roof has similar windows to aisle on each face but below gablets. Plain water spouts. West rose window incorporates a Crucifixus. West door. 3-stage tower with north door, tall lancets, quatrefoil windows, arched belfry openings below gable hoodmoulds and plain pinnacles at each corner of the spire. The donors of the church, Sir Humphrey and Lady Annette de Trafford, are depicted in a carved panel at the base of the church, kneeling and holding a representation of the church. Interior: moulded nave arcade arches on circular columns with delicately carved foliated capitals. Scissor-braced roof trusses. Elaborately painted vault to apse. Sculpted reredos and figures below canopies to either side of the chancel arch.

Listing NGR: SJ7991794655