Church Of St Mark With St Anne

The Church of St Mark with St Anne is an Anglican church built between 1853 and 1854, designed by Alexander Dick Gough. It is constructed from Kentish ragstone rubble with Bath stone dressings and has a roof of Welsh slate. The church includes a single-bay sanctuary, a chancel flanked by vestries, wide transepts of the same height as the chancel and nave, north and south aisles, a tower to the south-west, and a spire. The east window has three lights with colonnettes, and there are spherical triangles to the south wall of the sanctuary and the clerestory of the chancel. The south transept features a pointed-arched entrance under a shallow gable with three lancet windows above, with a single lancet in the gable. The south aisle has four lancet windows with colonnettes and hoodmoulds between buttresses; the clerestory features circular cinquefoil windows. The north aisle is similar, but of six bays; part of the north aisle at the west end is currently closed off. The west end is gabled with diagonal buttresses, a pointed-arched entrance with engaged columns featuring foliage capitals and dogtooth ornament, and a three-light west window with colonnettes and a hood mould. The tower, located in the penultimate bay of the south side, has diagonal buttresses to the first three stages, a clock stage, and a bell stage with paired lancets framed by colonnettes with nailhead ornament. The broach spire features decayed representations of the Evangelists as gargoyles at its four corners, with lucarnes to the cardinal faces. A gabled spirelet sits atop the crossing, marking the intersection of the nave and transepts.

The interior features a shallow sanctuary framed by a pointed arch. The chancel and transepts create three separate spaces defined by corbelled wall shafts. The aisles consist of four bays to the south and six to the north. The arcade features alternating circular and octagonal columns, with the circular columns having shaft rings and roll mouldings to their capitals. A gallery, originally open underneath, is now enclosed. The roof is supported by queen posts with arched braces and decorative struts, reaching considerable complexity at the crossing. The church contains a mid-19th century altar table with trefoiled painted panels, encaustic tiling to the chancel floor, and an arcaded pulpit supported by short columns.