Church of St Anne is a Grade II* listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1950. A Baroque Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Anne
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1950
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Baroque
- Address
- Church of St Anne, Load Street, Bewdley, DY12 2AE
- OS grid reference
- SO 785 753
- Coordinates
- 52.37542, -2.31609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Anne is a chapel that has been converted into a parish church, originally built between 1695 and 1696 for the tower, with the rest of the church completed from 1745 to 1748. It underwent some repairs in the late 19th and late 20th centuries, carried out by Thomas Woodward of Worcester and Richard Woodward of Chipping Campden. The church is constructed of ashlar stone and features a hipped machine tile roof.
The west tower has four stages and is topped with a balustraded parapet, which has an urn at each corner. The tower includes bands on the second and third stages and is quoined. There is a projecting square stair turret at the south-west corner. The third stage, or belfry, has a louvred window with a four-centred head on each side, along with a clock face below. The first and second stages feature semi-circular headed windows with moulded architraves, and there is an entrance on the south side.
The south aisle consists of five bays defined by flat pilasters, a balustraded parapet, a moulded cornice, and a moulded plinth. The windows have semi-circular heads and moulded architraves with keystones and impost blocks. The window in the west bay has a high sill with an entrance below, which features a restored 20th-century stone architrave and an 18th-century two-leaf door with raised and fielded panels. The north aisle is similar to the south aisle. The chancel has one bay with a window similar to those in the aisles but smaller, a balustraded parapet, and a moulded cornice above. The east window is a Venetian window.
Inside, the nave features a five-bay arcade supported by Doric columns, a segmental plaster ceiling, and a flat ceiling in the aisles with a moulded cornice. There is a gallery at the west end with raised and fielded panels on the front. The chancel arch is segmental with a keystone, and the east window is flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters and a decorative keystone, with a decorative plaster ceiling from the 19th century. The fittings include cut-down 18th-century pews and a panelled 18th-century oak pulpit with simple inlay. A stone tablet inscribed "Ric: Woodward/ Campden in Glos/ 1745" has been re-set in the north-east corner of the north aisle. The parish of Bewdley was separated from Ribbesford in 1853.
Local climate
Church of St Anne receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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