Chapel At St Annes Bedehouses

The chapel at St Anne's Bedehouses is a building of the 1850s, constructed between 1841 and 1853, designed by W Butterfield for R W Sibthorp. It is built of brick with stone dressings and a plain tile roof, executed in the Early English style.

The building features a nave and chancel under a continuous roof, topped by a fleche, along with a vestry and a south porch. The exterior has a chamfered plinth and sill band, cogged eaves, a coped east gable, and porch. The nave and chancel, spanning four bays, each side incorporates two chamfered pointed arched recesses containing three-light and four-light pointed arched windows. To the east is a diaper work cross, and the east end has a three-light pointed arched window with hoodmould. Each gable has a truncated lancet window in the peak. The octagonal wooden fleche has an arcaded bell stage and a leaded spire topped with a weathercock. A lean-to vestry includes two single lancets to the east and a large side wall stack. The south porch has flanking buttresses and a chamfered doorway with roll moulding, shafts, and a hoodmould with stops. A figure panel sits above the doorway. Inside the porch are stone benches and a common rafter roof with collars. A double roll moulded inner doorway has a hoodmould and corbels; above it, a segment headed recess with a cross and a Latin inscription.

The interior, originally rendered and with polychromatic decoration (now painted over), features an all-over waggon roof with corbels at the east end. A moulded sill band, including a trefoil band in the chancel, is present. The nave windows contain fragments of stained glass in the heads. A stained glass window from the 19th century is located on the north side of the chancel, alongside a doorway and a segmental pointed recess containing a figure. The east window was added in 1954 by Comper. A small aumbry is positioned to the south-east.

The interior fittings include traceried oak stalls and desks with bookstands and candlesticks, and an organ housed in a panelled case. There are also benches with shaped ends. Several memorials are present, including eight brasses in tiled surrounds dating to the late 19th century, created by Waller, primarily commemorating members of the Sibthorp family.