Church Of St Anne

The Church of St Anne is a parish church with a 14th-century tower, the remainder of which was rebuilt in 1867 by John Middleton. The tower is constructed of squared, roughly coursed stone, while the rest of the church is built of squared uncoursed red stone with white ashlar dressings, all set beneath a tiled roof. The church consists of a four-bay nave, a two-bay chancel, a south porch, a west tower with a spire, and a vestry.

The tower has a moulded plinth and a three-story design with diagonally-set corner buttresses. A boarded door is located on the left, and a quadrant for the tower stair rises against the nave gable on the right. There is a former door near the base, a slit window in a blocked opening above, and a partly built-up lancet with a trefoil head on the second stage. Above this is a two-light mullioned window with reticulated tracery, followed by a plain string course below two crenels on each face of the parapet. The truncated octagonal stone spire has ribs along its angles, and a lancet with an ogee head partway up.

The nave has a plain plinth, square-set buttresses with two offsets, and a single lancet with reticulated tracery on the left, a hoodmould with uncarved block stops. The gabled porch has a boarded door, nook shafts with floriate capitals, and headstops to the hoodmoulds. The porch has a stone base and open timberwork above, with a pointed arch containing sidelights under a steeply-cambered tiebeam. The interior of the porch features collar and studs, backed by diagonal boarding, and carved bargeboards. The sides have three lights with trefoil heads. To the right are two two-light windows, similar to those on the left of the porch. The parapet gable has a cross gablet apex with a floriate cross.

The chancel has two windows and two buttresses, similar to the east end of the nave. It features uncarved corbelled eaves and a parapet gable, matching the nave.

Inside, the chancel arch is moulded using alternating red and white voussoirs, rising from floriate capitals on marble columns, which themselves rest on angel corbels with head stops to the hoodmould. Arch-braced collar trusses run off ornate floriate corbels, with a circular cross above the collar. The chancel has a low moulded string, marble nook-shafts to the windows, and a recess below the south-eastern window forming a sedilia. An aumbry is located on the left, featuring a trefoil head and diaper back, with an ornate floriate corbel below. The reredos is stone, with blind arcading, a diaper background, cinquefoil heads, and quatrefoils between, decorated with flowers and leaves. A panelled boarded barrel-vault ceiling is supported by angel corbels. A panelled wooden pulpit dates to 1632. A significant circular Norman lead font is present, with blind arcading to its sides, containing alternating figures and scrolls on a single stone base that is square, reducing to an octagon above with broaches. Late 18th and early 19th century wall monuments are found in the tower base. The date of rebuilding is displayed on a notice within the church, presumably indicating the date of completion. The top of the spire was removed in 1972.