Description

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

External Links

• St Anne's Church, St Anne's-on-the-Sea at Wikipedia
• St Anne's Church, St Anne's-on-the-Sea official website
• Wikidata Q7592481

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