Church Of St Anne

The Church of St Anne is a parish church dated 1743, as indicated by a plaque, with a north transept added in 1877. It features roughly coursed rubble walls, sandstone quoins and window surrounds, a graduated greenslate roof, and a stone ridge, with stone urns at each corner. The church has six bays and a continuous nave and chancel. At the west end, there is a square tower topped with a corniced ashlar parapet and eight stone flaming torches. The west entrance, located at the base of the tower, has a plain classical doorcase with a broken pediment that encloses the coat of arms of Robert Bateman of Reston Hall. Above the door is a plaque inscribed with details about the church's construction, noting that it was begun in 1743 at the expense of Mr. Robert Bateman, who died suddenly that same year. The entrance features 19th-century studded wooden double doors fitted with a wooden lock, which is apparently dated 1682 but is very worn.

The east window is Venetian, with a rusticated central architrave set within an open and broken pediment, while the remaining windows have arched heads with keystones and impost blocks. Inside, the church has a coved and panelled ceiling, which is said to have been plastered during the 19th-century restoration, featuring a continuous frieze and dentil cornice supported by Ionic pillars on pedestals in the chancel. The east window, dedicated to the memory of Isabella Thompson and signed by Edward Frampton, is flanked by panels with biblical quotations set in 19th-century Jacobean-style panelling. The church also contains 18th-century turned altar rails and a brass in the chancel commemorating the restoration of 1877, which includes a poem by Wordsworth dedicated to Robert Bateman. The opening in the west tower is filled with a three-stage screen of Corinthian order, with the lower stage featuring round-headed double doors with small twisted pilasters, flanked by Corinthian pilasters with defaced capitals, and the Royal Arms above. The marble floor was sent from Italy by Bateman, and there is an 18th-century font with cherub heads, possibly on a later pedestal.