Parish Church Of St Ann

The Parish Church of St Ann was built in 1861 by Thomas Talbot Bury. It is constructed of snecked rubblestone with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs. The church includes a nave, aisles, a south-west porch-steeple, north and south transeptal chapels, and an apsed chancel with a north chapel. The architectural style is Second Pointed.

The tower features three stages with stepped angle buttresses. The gabled entrance to the south has undercut mouldings. The lower stage of the tower has a single two-light west window. The ringing chamber contains three trefoiled lancet windows with hood moulds, the outer ones blind. Twin lancets are present in the bell chamber, with cusped quatrefoil vesicas over the trefoiled lights. A broached stone steeple has two tiers of lucarnes; the lower ones display two-light tracery. The top of the steeple was damaged during World War II and rebuilt in 1954-5 by J. Barrington-Baker. The nave has a five-light west window with Geometric Decorated tracery. The aisles contain three three-light Decorated windows, four to the north aisle. The clerestory features three groups of twin lancets, four on the north side, separated by pilaster strips. Each transeptal chapel has angle buttresses and two two-light Geometric windows to the lower stage, with a wheel window in the gable head. The apse has five two-light windows with trefoiled lights below cinquefoiled vesicas.

Inside, the four-bay nave arcade has quatrefoil piers with seaweed capitals supporting arches with one chamfered and one sunk-quadrant moulding. A wide, moulded chancel arch sits on bundled piers. The clerestory windows have rere arches, with additional paired lancets to the east and west bays, the former opening into the transepts, the latter blind on the south side. The roof is arch-braced, with arches of a trefoil profile, collars, two tiers of butt purlins, and a ridge piece, incorporating Y-braces from collars to purlins. The aisle roofs have lean-tops with purlins. The apse includes an arcaded stone dado composed of trefoil arches supported on engaged columns and surmounted by crocketed gablets with panelled crocketed finials between them. The reredos comprises three cinquefoiled gablets with similar decoration, containing a monochrome depiction of Jesus in the House of Simon, by Cornelius Durham. Engaged stone columns rise between windows to foliate carved capitals, supporting wall posts for the radial trefoiled roof timbers. Twin engaged columns frame the entrances to the transept chapels, featuring seaweed capitals and wide flat pointed arches carved with busts of saints bearing scrolls on a foliate background. Two roundels with high-relief carvings of saints are located above the arches. The north chancel chapel has dado panelling. Fittings include arcaded stone altar rails with a marble top rail, and a Caen stone pulpit designed with carved Geometric tracery designs, separated by projecting stepped buttresses; it was created by Mr Gomm, the foreman of the work. A marble balustrade was added to the steps in 1928. The octagonal font features quatrefoils containing a bird, shields, and foliage. Stained glass by William Wailes of Newcastle, dating from 1861, is present in the west window and apse windows.