Church Of St Anne And Boundary Wall

Church of St Anne and Boundary Wall

Parish church built in 1911 by the architects Paley and Austin for Sir John Robinson. The church is designed in the Perpendicular revival style of the 15th century. Construction materials include textured ashlar with ashlar dressings, Westmorland slate, lead, slab and boarded roofs.

The plan comprises a north tower, nave and chancel under continuous roof, north aisle, north porch, north transept, morning chapel, vestry, south transept with lean-to, and south aisle.

The corner-buttressed battered tower rises in four stages and features a plinth, string courses, decorative bands and an inscribed band, surmounted by a crenellated parapet with traceried panels. The west side displays a double lancet window; the north side has a moulded pointed arched doorway with traceried spandrels, above which is an ogee-headed triple lancet with traceried panelled reveal, and a double lancet with clock above. The east side contains a canted stair turret with parapet and double lancet above it. The south side has a single light window. The fourth stage has two double lancet ogee-headed bell openings with intermediate pilaster and angel capital on three sides, with a single similar opening to the east.

The nave west end has two gabled buttresses, a crenellated lintel band, and a shouldered coped gable with cross. To the left is a double lancet with hood mould. A central projecting canted bay forming the baptistry features a string course and moulded coped parapet with a squat double lancet with hood mould. Above this is a cusped quadruple lancet with stepped cusped transom, flanked by single traceried panels in moulded reveal with hood mould, and above again is a single small light. The clerestory has on each side four triple lancets with hood moulds.

The buttressed north aisle comprises four bays with a traceried round window to the east and three segmental-headed windows with hood moulds to the west. The north porch, one bay, has a plinth, parapet, pointed arched door to the north and single lancet to the west. The north transept displays two gabled buttresses, that to the left bearing a foundation stone, and a shouldered coped gable. To the north is a quadruple ogee-headed lancet with stepped cusped transom; to the east is a single square-headed window. The single-bay morning chapel has one corner buttress and a shouldered coped gable with cross, with a single lancet to the north and ogee-headed triple lancet to the east.

The buttressed two-bay chancel has a string course, inscribed and billeted lintel bands, and a shouldered coped gable with cross. Each side contains two superimposed double lancets with elliptical and ogee heads and transoms. The east end has quintuple ogee-headed lancets with hood mould, and above, a single quatrefoil to the right. The vestry is a single-storey, one-bay structure with moulded coped parapet and hipped roof. Its east side has three two- and four-light mullioned windows, and to the right is a projecting porch with chamfered doorway and slab roof. The south side has a single four-light mullioned window.

The south transept has a single buttress and shouldered coped gable with chimney stack. To the south is a lean-to porch containing a two-light mullioned window and doorway. Above is a double lancet with lights blocked below the transom. A single-bay lean-to to the left has a segmental-headed double lancet. The south aisle comprises four bays with three segmental-headed quadruple lancets and a pointed arched doorway with hood mould to the west. The west end has one double lancet and single corner buttress.

Interior: The nave features a five-bay arcade with octagonal piers and a barrel-vaulted king post roof. The chancel has a chamfered and rebated arch and to the north a two-bay arcade containing a glazed timber screen. The north corner contains an elaborate 14th century style alabaster canopied tomb of Sir John Robinson, with a recumbent marble figure signed 'Albert Toft Sc 1930'. The east end features an elaborate timber screen and alabaster reredos dating from 1931. The south corner has a linked aumbry, piscina and sedilia. Windows contain 20th century stained glass attributed to Wailes. The nave and aisles have moulded and panelled deal pews. A panelled square stone pulpit with canted front and figure carving displays Arms. A carved timber lectern and a tapered octagonal font with shield panels and timber cover complete the furnishings.

The boundary wall is of irregularly coursed ashlar with ashlar coping, two terminal piers and four gatepiers with canted corners and concave-domed tops. A pair of matching wrought iron gates is present. The wall extends approximately 125 metres in length.