Church Of St Anne

ST GERMANS HESSENFORD SX 35 NW 4/107 Church of St Anne

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Parish church. 1832, rebuilt 1871 to designs by J. P. St Aubyn. Slatestone rubble with limestone dressings. Slate roof with crested ridge tiles. Plan: Nave with south porch, chancel with north vestry, used as organ chamber. Gothic style. 4-bay nave with weathered buttresses, and paired pointed arched lancets. Slate-hung west spire with louvred openings and cockerel weathervane. West end of nave has tall triple lancet, with single lancet to right and left. Gabled south porch with buttresses, 4-centred arched doorway with jamb shafts and hood mould, double doors. Single light each side of porch. Raised coped verges and cross finial. 2-bay chancel has 2 lancets and cill string course; east end has triple lancet with central light taller, cill string continued; cross finial. Interior: Nave has 4-bay arcade to north and south, plain circular piers with 4- centred arches. Corbelled 4-centred arch to chancel, which has south sedilia with trefoil heads. All windows have rere-arches. Nave and chancel have common rafter roof. Aisles have one row of purlins and windbraces. Fittings: all contemporary, benches in nave and stone pulpit of 1902. Circular limestone font in nave. Sources: Radcliffe, E.: Buildings of England: Cornwall 1970.

Listing NGR: SX3078057484