Church Of St Anne

SINGLETON CHURCH ROAD SD 33 NE 4/63 Church of St. Anne - GV II

Church, 1861 by E.G. Paley for Thomas Miller of Singleton Lodge. Sandstone rubble, slate roof. Nave with north-east steeple, south transept, chancel; in Early English style. Three-stage tower has angle buttresses to the lower stages, set-back 3rd stage with 2-light belfry louvres, broach spire with small 2-light lucarnes. Nave and chancel have mostly plate-traceried 2-light windows, nave has tripartite west window with 2-light traceried centre, chancel has 3-light traceried east window with wheel tracery in the head. Interior: scissor-braced common rafter roof with collar purlin, and painted wagon roof to chancel; depressed 2-centred transept arches, moulded chancel arch with shafts; various memorials to members of the Miller family, notably a decorated engraved brass plaque to Thomas Miller (d.1865) with portrait in a roundel above a classical arch panel. (Thomas Miller was principal proprietor of Preston cotton firm Horrocks, Miller and Company).

Listing NGR: SD3850438372