Roman Catholic Church Of St Anne

The Roman Catholic Church of St Anne was built in 1861 by Edward Welby Pugin. It features red brick construction with sandstone and blue brick dressings, topped by a steeply pitched slate roof. The church has a nave with full-height aisles that create a single vessel on a north-south axis, leading to an apsidal sanctuary at one end and an east porch. The design is in the Eclectic Gothic style.

The nave is buttressed and consists of six bays, each bay containing a large multi-foil circular sandstone window set beneath a shallow depressed arch. A blue band and a small corbel table run along the eaves. The east side has a gabled porch at the first bay, which features a moulded arch. The south gable includes three lancet windows for the nave, flanked by shallow buttresses with blue brick set-offs, and one lancet window for each aisle. All these windows have sandstone surrounds and extrados bands of blue brick. In the gable, there is a round window with four quatrefoils.

The apse is semi-circular, with a shallow bay in the centre topped by a gable above the eaves, and it has four cuspid lancets on each side.

Inside, the church boasts an unusual open timber roof supported by slim iron columns that carry open-work wall plates. The principals of the nave roof extend down through the aisles as passing braces, from which rise arch braces to scissor trusses that reach the outer walls at the level of the aisle roofs. There is a south gallery with a Gothic-style pierced front, and the church contains stained glass windows of various dates that are of good quality.