Church Of St Anne

PUXTON C.P. BRISTOL ROAD ST 36 SE

4/9 CHURCH OF ST ANNE

• II

Anglican church (now redundant). 1864 by John Norton for Robert Phippen, former mayor of Bristol. Snecked rubble, freestone dressings, ornamental flay tile roofs and ridge, raised coped verges. Nave with gabled south porch, transepts, bell-tower, apse, north vestry. Early English. Plain gabled nave of 3 bays, windows mainly 2-light with plate tracery; buttressed west end has 2 pairs of lancets with continuous drip under relieving arch. Doorway in gabled south porch has 2 shafts with stiff-leaf capitals under a floreate tympanum. The gabled south transept has a similar door under a trefoiled arch, 2 lancets above flank a canopied niche with Madonna and Child and above is a rose window with plate tracery; the similar north transept has no door and 3 plain tall lancets. A slender, circular bell-tower in the angle between transept and nave rises to conical cap on a shafted arcade. The apse has lancets between slender shaft carrying trefoiled arched. Interior: fine, shafted chancel arch; apse has a screen of shaft bearing trefoiled arches and an ornately painted ceiling. Source: N Pevsner: Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol: 1958.

Listing NGR: ST3976064267