Church Of St Anne

SK 00 NW BURNTWOOD C.P. CHURCH STREET (south side) Chasetown

4/8 Church of St. Anne (Formerly listed as St Anne's 11.10.84 Church)

• II*

Chapel of ease. 1865 by Edward Adams at the instigation of John Robinson M.P. Polychromatic brickwork with occasional sandstone dressings; slate roofs with verge parapets. North Italian Romanesque style. West porch and baptistry, nave, aisles to north and south and apse. Nave exposed only to west with a gable capped by pinnacles to sides and bellcote to apex, corbelled brick "machicolation" to verge; two light Romanesque window to slight central break over gabled baptistry of single storey with flanking entrance porches gabled to north and south. Aisles: aisle gables flank nave and of only marginally less height; corbelled eaves; four bays defined as inset panels each with two, two-light Romanesque windows, east and west ends have similar 3-light windows and quatrefoil light to apices. Apse of seven bays, octagonally ended; corbelled eaves; continuous band of Romanesque fenestration set high, under eaves with 3 lights to each bay. Interior: four-bay arcade in brick with stencilled Byzantine pattern on capitals; plastered walls; thin, scissor-braced nave roof; chancel and baptistry arches on twin attached brick shafts. B.O.E. p. 96.

Listing NGR: SK0435408003