Church of St Anno is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 2004. A Victorian Church.

Church of St Anno

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 July 2004
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Anno is a small, 19th-century Gothic-style church constructed of rubble stone with freestone dressings and quoins, topped by a renewed slate roof with coped gables and moulded kneelers. A double-west gabled bellcote features pointed bell openings and a round opening above. A south porch has shallow angle buttresses. Its 2-centred arch is surrounded by continuous moulding and a hood mould. North and south walls hold square-headed windows with cusped tracery: 2-light nave windows, a 3-light chancel window, and a 2-light chancel window. A stepped buttress sits between the nave and chancel. The chancel has a 3-light Decorated east window, and the nave a 2-light Decorated west window, both with hood moulds. The west window is flanked by stepped buttresses.

Inside the porch are stone benches. The nave has pointed south doors with strap hinges, with the inscription "rebuilt Anno Domini 1877" above the arch. The interior features a 7-bay arched-brace roof with plain, short posts and a single tier of windbraces. Decorative tiles are present in the chancel, with richer detail in the sanctuary. A moulded wooden communion rail stands with octagonal posts and cusped brackets. A simple, corbelled stoup has been re-set by the south door.

A prominent rood screen dominates the interior, featuring a broad central doorway flanked by 5 lights on each side. Each light has a panelled dado and intricate openwork tracery of varied designs. The doorway has a triangular head with traceried circles. Above a foliage cornice, the coving exhibits moulded and embossed ribs with openwork tracery panels, differing in design between the chancel and nave sides. The bressumer has two tiers of vine and foliage trails; the upper tier sprouts from the mouths of wyverns. The loft contains a row of 25 canopied niches with Victorian figures, with Christ in the centre, Apostles to the right, and kings, patriarchs, and prophets to the left. The screen is crowned by a foliage cornice. On the chancel side, a single broad foliage trail decorates the bressumer, and plain panels adorn the loft.

A plain, 19th-century octagonal font stands within the church. A late 17th-century box pew, adapted as a vestry, resides in the northwest corner, decorated with simple geometric flower patterns and a panel inscribed "David Lewis Churchwarden 1681" in raised letters. Later 19th-century pews have open backs and open arched ends. A pulpit, of similar date, has open arched panels on a freestone base. A corbelled freestone wall tablet to David Morgan (died 1814), by Edward Stephens of Llandrindod, is set in the north wall of the nave. A marble tablet to Evan Stephens (died 1833) is on the north wall of the chancel, and a freestone tablet to John Stephens (died 1875) is on the south wall of the chancel, exhibiting a simple achievement with IHS in raised letters. The east window features a panel depicting the Nativity.

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