Church of St Anne is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1989. Church.
Church of St Anne
- WRENN ID
- bitter-plaster-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1989
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Anne, Woolfardisworthy
- OS grid reference
- SS 349 231
- Coordinates
- 50.98375, -4.35312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Anne is a church built in 1862 for the establishment of an ecclesiastical parish by Mrs Elwes. It features stone rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof, with a conical roof on the tower. The church has a rectangular plan consisting of a nave and chancel, with the tower projecting on the north side and a porch on the south side. The tower was restored in 1887 and is designed in the Decorated style.
On the exterior, there are simple 1 and 2-light Decorated style windows, with two on the north side and four on the south side. The west end has two 2-light windows with a rose window above, while the east end features a more elaborate 3-light window. The tower, which projects on the north side of the chancel/nave division, has slate hanging on its top stage and two 2-centred arched doorways on its east side, one located at the first-floor level. The gabled south porch has moulded outer and inner arches. The chancel is lower than the nave.
Inside, there is a moulded chancel arch and a carved stone pulpit accessed by a doorway from the tower. The roof structure is arch-braced, with alternate trusses as raised crucks resting on stone corbels. The bench ends are simply panelled.
Local climate
Church of St Anne sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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