Former Church Of St Anne

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TL 41 NE 4/34

HIGH WYCH Allen's Green SLOUGH ROAD (north side) Former Church of St Anne, at E side of junction with Allen's Green Road

(Formerly listed as CHURCH OF ST ANNE at E side of junction with Allen's Green Road)

GV II

Mission Church. 1863 (WEA II (1967) 30) by G E Pritchett (1824- 1912) (Builder 8.3.1912 283). Small pretty Victorian mission church; E parts in masonry but nave still timberframed. Uncoursed flint with white brick for dressings, quoins and plinth offset and with stone windows to chancel and vestry: timberframed nave, plastered verges and eaves. Square shingled bell-turret over chancel. Wrought iron crosses over each gable and bracketed, gabed door hood, and wrought iron finial to bell turret. Unaisled rectangular nave with S door, polygonal apse to chancel, and a rectangular gabed vestry as a S transept, curtained off from chancel. 2-light wood mullioned windows to nave, with diamond leaded glazing. Heavy plank S door with decorative iron hinges. Drip board on shaped brackets above each window and continuous over weatherboarded apron. 2 round nosed steps to door. Similar W door into vestry with 2-light stone, chamfered mullioned S window, with square head and diamond leaded glazing. W end has central cross window and grooved timbers dividing rough plaster above weatherboarded apron. Horizontal drip boards on shaped brackets at 4 levels and similar offset over low brick plinth. Masonry structure inside possibly to carry a W bell turret, built before E turret decided on. 4 windows along N side of nave, and brick buttress at change to flint masonry of chancel. Interior intact, with scissor-braced pine roof, ornamental tiled chancel floor rising in 3 marble steps, altar rail on wrought iron standards, heavy altar table with ornamental cusped bracing on front, 2 stained glass windows flanking the altar, octagonal stone font on slender shafts, and swing-back pine benches. A complete and well-preserved mission church of 1863 by G E Pritchett still retaining a timberframed nave, presumably regarded as a temporary expedient when built.

Listing NGR: TL4549316813