Church Of St Anne With St Columba

The Church of St Anne with St Columba is a parish church dating from 1868 to 1870, designed by Francis Chambers, with subsequent restoration work in 1902 and 1915. It is constructed of Kentish ragstone with some brick detailing, and has slate roofs. The church is built on a plan comprising a nave, aisles, transepts, chancel, and a north-east tower, and is executed in a French Gothic style.

The west front is of brick, with a stone gable containing a wheel window featuring six encircled sexfoils. The nave aisles have three cross gables on both the north and south sides, each with a two-light Geometric window. A south-side west aisle gable features an arched, moulded doorway with one order of engaged compound piers topped with seaweed capitals. A similar doorway exists between the east gable and the transept, incorporating three orders of shafts with stiff-leaf capitals and billet and ballflower motifs in the arch. The clerestory has six trefoiled lancet windows. The transepts have two two-light Decorated windows, and a wheel window with Decorated tracery in the gable head. The south transept includes an eastern aisle with two lancets at clerestory level. The north transept incorporates an unfinished tower with a diagonal buttress. The apsed chancel has five gabled two-light windows with Geometric tracery. Vestry rooms, dating from 1902, are attached to the chancel on its north and south sides.

Inside, a three-bay arcade features circular piers with polygonal capitals and double-chamfered arches. The nave roof is constructed with tie beams, king posts, collars, scissor braces, and five tiers of purlins. A rood beam supports Crucifixus figures. The transepts open into the nave via high, double-chamfered arches, the responds on the left being left uncarved. The south side has a glazed screen below the organ chamber. A 1990 internal porch to the south-east doorway was designed by Tom Hemsby. A moulded chancel arch is present. A choir gallery on the north side of the chancel features a wrought-iron grille. The reredos comprises five gablets with dogtooth decoration on marble columns, set against a stencilled background, and includes statuettes of angels on two of the gablets. The chancel roof has a radial rafter design.

Many of the church's furnishings were imported from other locations. Stations of the Cross are rendered in painted plaster. A statue of St Columba, likely designed by James Brooks, is present. The font cover is of a radial fin type and was designed by Sir Ninian Comper; the font itself is a plain octagonal structure with quatrefoils on the bowl. An oak pulpit and tester, designed by C.H.M. Milcham, features carvings with crockets and four symbols of the Evangelists. A triptych in the north aisle displays a painted Annunciation by R.H. Briggs.