Church Of St Anne

The Church of St Anne is a parish church largely dating to the 12th and 13th centuries, with a major restoration carried out between 1882 and 1884 by H Cockbain. The building is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with gritstone dressings and quoins, featuring lead and Welsh slate roofs concealed behind plain parapets with moulded copings. The church consists of a west tower, a nave with a north aisle and a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry.

The west tower is of the 13th century, with two stages of unequal height. It has diagonal buttresses to the west, single light depressed ogee headed bell openings in each direction, a pilaster buttress to the west, moulded battlements, and four crocketed pinnacles. A gabled south porch, in a neo-Norman style, features a moulded round-arched doorway with colonnettes and carved capitals. The south side of the nave has two 19th-century three-light windows with reticulated tracery, hoodmoulds on head stops, and continuous moulded sill bands. A plainly chamfered priests doorway is located on the south side of the chancel, alongside a two-light flat arched window with triangular headed subcusped lights and a three-light 19th-century window with cusped intersecting tracery, also with a hood mould featuring head stops. A three-light east window with bar tracery completes the south-facing facade. The north side of the chancel has a single ogee headed cusped lancet. The north aisle and vestry date from the 1882-84 restoration, and have west, east, and four north windows all of three lights with reticulated tracery and segmental pointed heads, a continuous sill, and stepped hoodmoulds. Buttresses are located between each window, with two set-offs. An ashlar chimney is situated at the north east corner.

Inside, a plain 12th-century south doorway has scallop capitals on 19th-century polished stone columns, a segmental inner arch, and a 19th-century plank door. A three-bay north arcade features octagonal piers, moulded capitals, and double chamfered arches with hoodmoulds. There is a similar 19th-century tower arch, the hood mould adorned with elaborate carved stops depicting narrative biblical scenes, and a similar chancel arch. Notable memorials include a brass plaque to John Calvert +1710, featuring a recumbent figure in a shroud, and a large aedicule to George and John Savile +1733 and 1734. A 19th-century stone and marble reredos and dado line the east wall with inset needlework panels. Other interior features include a 19th-century piscina with a subcusped round arch on colonnettes, a 19th-century altar with painted gothic panels, 19th-century gothic choir stalls, a built-in stone pulpit, and a tub font. Stained glass is present in the north aisle, in a World War I memorial window by Heaton, Butler & Bayne.