Church Of St Anne

The Church of St Anne is a building with a long history, beginning in the early 12th century and significantly altered in the late 12th century, 15th century, and restored in 1889. It is constructed of flint with stone quoins and dressings, and has Horsham slab roofs with replacement plain tiles. The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a south aisle and south chapel, and a chancel.

The west tower has three stages, separated by string courses, and is topped with a short spire on a pyramidal roof. The north wall of the five-bay nave contains a north porch, which incorporates a former 12th-century doorway, with a triple-ordered arch featuring columns with cushion capitals and some chevron moulding. The north wall also contains simple, staff-moulded lancet windows, all dating from the 1889 restoration. The south wall, which is three bays wide, includes a cross-gabled chapel to the west with paired 15th-century-style windows set within a square surround. The chancel has three windows on the north side and two on the south, with a separated triple lancet window at the east end.

Inside, the south aisle has a two-bay arcade on drum piers with square abaci and stiff-leaf capitals, supported by stiff-leaf corbels at the corners. The pointed arches are chamfered, except for the round-arched easternmost bay, which indicates the existence of an earlier 12th-century transeptal chapel. The chapel’s roof is rib-vaulted with a boss that echoes the carvings on the capitals of the south arcade, suggesting they are of a similar date. The nave roof is a queen post roof, dated 1538. A 12th-century font has a drum-shaped design, decorated with basket-weave on the sides, a band of plait below, and pellets above. The church contains stained glass by Capronnier of Brussels, installed in 1889. A 1620 pulpit stands on angle columns with panels depicting lions' heads.