Church Of St Anne

The Church of St Anne is a Grade II* chapel of ease built in 1865 by Edward Adams, commissioned by John Robinson, M.P. The church features polychromatic brickwork with occasional sandstone dressings and slate roofs with verge parapets, designed in the North Italian Romanesque style.

The structure includes a west porch and baptistry, a nave, aisles on the north and south, and an apse. The nave is exposed only at the west end, which has a gable topped with pinnacles on the sides and a bellcote at the apex. The verge is decorated with corbelled brick "machicolation." Above the gabled baptistry, which is a single storey, there is a two-light Romanesque window set slightly forward, flanked by gabled entrance porches to the north and south.

The aisles have gables that are only slightly lower than the nave, with corbelled eaves. Each of the four bays in the aisles is defined by inset panels, each containing two two-light Romanesque windows. The east and west ends feature similar three-light windows and a quatrefoil light at the apex. The apse consists of seven bays with an octagonal end, corbelled eaves, and a continuous band of high-set Romanesque fenestration, with three lights in each bay.

Inside, there is a four-bay arcade made of brick with stencilled Byzantine patterns on the capitals. The walls are plastered, and the nave roof is thin and scissor-braced. The chancel and baptistry arches rest on twin attached brick shafts.