Church Of St Anne

The Church of St. Anne, built in 1861 by E.G. Paley for Thomas Miller of Singleton Lodge, is a church located on Singleton Church Road. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with a slate roof and features a nave with a north-east steeple, a south transept, and a chancel, all designed in the Early English style. The three-stage tower includes angle buttresses on the lower stages, a set-back third stage with 2-light belfry louvres, and a broach spire topped with small 2-light lucarnes. The nave and chancel are adorned with mostly plate-traceried 2-light windows, while the nave has a tripartite west window with a 2-light traceried center, and the chancel features a 3-light traceried east window with wheel tracery in the head. Inside, the church boasts a scissor-braced common rafter roof with a collar purlin and a painted wagon roof in the chancel. The transept arches are depressed 2-centred, and the chancel arch is moulded with shafts. There are various memorials to members of the Miller family, including a decorated engraved brass plaque dedicated to Thomas Miller, who died in 1865, featuring his portrait in a roundel above a classical arch panel. Thomas Miller was the principal proprietor of the Preston cotton firm Horrocks, Miller and Company.