Church of St Anne

The Church of St Anne is a parish church built between 1820 and 1824 to the designs of Robert Smirke, and is an example of Greek Revival architecture. It is one of the "Waterloo" churches commissioned after the Napoleonic Wars. In 1891, William White removed the western gallery, relocated the organ and installed new pews. E.W. Mountford added an apsidal chancel, a Lady Chapel, and vestries in 1896. The church was damaged by bombing and a fire, requiring restoration work; the ceiling was rebuilt in 1951 by Caroe and Partners. The church is constructed of stock brick with Portland stone dressings.

The west end features a stone tetrastyle Ionic portico and lobby, topped by a choragic, domed circular tower in two stages; the lower stage has pilasters, and the upper has attached columns with acroteria above the cornice. The nave has seven bays with round-headed windows above a linking band and rectangular openings below. The east end features an apsidal chancel added in 1896 by Mountford, with three round-headed openings; the central opening is infilled with stone, all featuring elaborate keystones and brick and stone piers. The vestries have Venetian windows to the north and south, and splayed mullions to the east.

Inside, the circular lobby displays a stone Royal Coat of Arms and two stone staircases with iron handrails. The seven-bay nave has galleries on three sides, supported by fluted Doric columns to the top of the gallery, with piers below, rumoured to conceal cast iron columns. The ceiling is composed of 21 panels, reconstructed following the 1951 fire. Pews were added by William White in 1891. Other furnishings include an elaborate late 17th-century style pulpit from 1893, an eagle lectern from 1894, and an octagonal stone font with a marble basin and columns dating from 1908. Early 19th-century wall tablets are also present. A round-headed chancel arch rests on attached columns, leading to a sanctuary with intersecting arches. The high altar features a copy of Leonardo's "Last Supper" in the tympanum of its broken pediment. Chancel pews may also be by William White. The Lady Chapel, by E.W. Mountford (1896), has marble walls, and its reredos features a text with heart designs below a painting of the Virgin, Child and St Anne by a parishioner, Mrs. Kirkby. A 1902 monument to Jessie Elizabeth Mountford, made of Connemara marble with a bronze plaque is also present. A five-bay stained glass window exists. A memorial chapel to the south was created from Mountford's vestry after 1925.