Ansdell Baptist Church

Ansdell Baptist Church is a Baptist church built in 1908, located on Ansdell Road North in Lytham St Annes. The church is constructed of Accrington brick laid in stretcher bond, with sandstone dressings and a graduated Cumbrian slate roof featuring red ridge tiles. It is designed in the Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style.

The church has a nave oriented on a north-south axis, with east and west transepts, a north-west tower, a narthex at the north end, and an apse at the south end. The nave consists of three bays, with the third bay canted out to create a diagonal junction with the transept. Architectural features include buttresses, weathered stone coping on the plinth, a broad band segmentally-arched over the windows, a thin moulded cornice, and a parapet that rises to upstands between the bays. The nave's segmental-headed three-light windows have arched centre lights, transomed outer lights, and arcaded tracery in the heads.

The north gable features a large segmental-headed three-light window with stylised tracery and a hoodmould with Art Nouveau whiplash returns. Below this window, the flat-roofed narthex has a segmental-headed doorway at the west end and a parapet with a carved stone plaque dated 1908. The tower at the east end of the narthex has three stages, with straight diagonal buttresses extending above the parapet. It includes a north doorway accessed by five steps, featuring an elaborate stone surround with a gable that breaks through an arcaded parapet. The belfry stage has coupled glazed windows and a high parapet with triangular shafts rising through upstands on each side.

Each transept has two windows similar to those in the nave, a large oculus above with geometrical tracery, and stepped gable coping topped with an apex cross.

Inside, the church features a hammer-beam roof, stained glass in a contemporary debased Art Nouveau style, original numbered benches, a Gothic-style dais and desk, and a two-centred arched organ loft in the apse, which contains a meeting room at ground level beneath it.