Church Of St Anne

The Church of St Anne is a parish church located in Hessenford, built in 1832 and rebuilt in 1871 according to designs by J. P. St Aubyn. It is constructed from slatestone rubble with limestone dressings and features a slate roof adorned with crested ridge tiles. The church is designed in the Gothic style and has a layout that includes a nave with a south porch and a chancel that contains a north vestry, which is used as an organ chamber.

The nave consists of four bays supported by weathered buttresses and features paired pointed arched lancets. At the west end, there is a slate-hung spire with louvred openings and a cockerel weathervane. The west end of the nave also includes a tall triple lancet, flanked by single lancets on either side. The gabled south porch is supported by buttresses and has a 4-centred arched doorway with jamb shafts and a hood mould, leading to double doors. There are single lights on each side of the porch, and the roof has raised coped verges topped with a cross finial.

The chancel, which has two bays, features two lancets and a cill string course. The east end is marked by a triple lancet, with the central light being taller and the cill string continuing across. It also has a cross finial.

Inside, the nave has a four-bay arcade on both the north and south sides, supported by plain circular piers with 4-centred arches. There is a corbelled 4-centred arch leading to the chancel, which contains south sedilia with trefoil heads. All windows have rere-arches, and both the nave and chancel boast a common rafter roof. The aisles feature one row of purlins and windbraces. The fittings are all contemporary, including benches in the nave and a stone pulpit from 1902, as well as a circular limestone font located in the nave.