Church Of St Anne

BROWN EDGE C.P. CHURCH ROAD SJ 95 SW 4/20 - Church of St Anne

GV II

Parish church. 1844 by J.C. Trubshaw, extended 1854 by Ward and Son of Hanley, under the patronage of H.H. Williamson. Rock-faced coursed stone; tiled roof; verge parapets with bellcote to west. Neo-Norman tower, nave, chancel. Nave and chancel by Trubshaw. Nave: of 4 bays divided by 2-stage buttresses and with 3 round- arch windows to each bay; corbelled eaves and string at cill level; gabled porch to west end. Chancel: very small lower chancel of one bay; east window of 3 round arches, the centre taller and all with zig-zag ornament. Tower: by Ward, Iconoclastic Romanesque, set to the north-east of the church and dominating the site; square plan; of 3 stages with set-back buttresses up to the bell chamber; grotesque- head corbels to zig-zag frieze and widely projecting gargoyles under solid spire with scalloped finish in imitation of tiles; 2 pairs of lucarnes to each face; circular stair turret to north-east finished by a cone-shaped roof; 2-light round-arch bell chamber openings, 2 to each face with columns in deeply-set reveals between lights; round-arch window to north and round-arch door to west with elaborate low-relief carving in tympanum inscribed: "VICT 1854" within arch.

Listing NGR: SJ9052254010