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Latitude: 53.7565 / 53°45'23"N
Longitude: -3.0226 / 3°1'21"W
OS Eastings: 332675
OS Northings: 429392
OS Grid: SD326293
Mapcode National: GBR 7TB0.D4
Mapcode Global: WH85G.JVW1
Plus Code: 9C5RQX4G+JX
Entry Name: Church of St Anne
Listing Date: 15 February 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1219217
English Heritage Legacy ID: 385303
ID on this website: 101219217
Location: St Anne's Church, St Anne's, Fylde, Lancashire, FY8
County: Lancashire
District: Fylde
Civil Parish: Saint Anne's on the Sea
Built-Up Area: Lytham St Anne's
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: St Annes on Sea St Anne (Heyhouses)
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Church building
LYTHAM ST ANNES
SD32NW ST ANNES ROAD EAST, St Annes
621-1/2/115 (West side)
Church of St Anne
GV II
Parish church. 1873, by Paley and Austin, enlarged 1887 by
R.K.Freeman; with additions of 1903, 1919 and 1930.
Red brick in English bond with some pebble inlay, sandstone
dressings, and red pantile roof. Mixed Gothic style.
Nave and chancel in one, south aisle under carried-down roof
embracing south transept, west tower (1887) embraced by nave,
north aisle under parallel roof; baptistery added to west side
of tower, memorial chapel added to north side of chancel.
The monumental square 2-stage tower, with low buttresses to
the west side, stone bands including a double band to the 1st
stage with diamond-pattern pebble inlay, and a set-back belfry
stage with diagonal buttresses, crow-stepped parapet and
crocketed corner pinnacles, has a 2-centred arched west window
with intersecting tracery, clock-faces to the belfry stage and
square-headed 2-light belfry windows with stone louvres and
mouchette tracery in the heads; and at the top of the south
side of the 1st stage, a statue in a niche.
The attached polygonal baptistery has 2-light windows, a
lettered parapet and copper-clad polygonal roof.
The 4-bay south aisle has a 2-centred arched doorway to the
1st bay and square-headed 3-light windows in the other bays;
the transept has buttresses and a large 2-centred arched
4-light window with a transom and tracery; and continued to
the right of this is one bay of the aisle built as a vestry,
with a 2-centred arched doorway dated 1873.
The chancel has bands of blind arcading with pebble inlay, a
square-headed 3-light plate-traceried window in the south
side, a large 2-centred arched 5-light east window with
lancet-shaped tracery, a buttressed north transept with a
large 2-centred arched window which has a triple-chamfered
brick surround; and attached to the north-east corner, a
flat-roofed polygonal memorial chapel.
The 4-bay north aisle, with buttresses, has large 2-centred
arched traceried windows with double-chamfered brick
surrounds.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORY: erected by Lady Cecily Clifton at her own expense in
memory of the Clifton estate agent James Fair (d.1871); first
church in the new town of St Annes-on-Sea, which was named
after it.
Forms group with associated lychgate and boundary wall (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD3267529392
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