Description

SD 71 NW TURTON HIGH STREET
Chapeltown

7/120 Church of St. Anne
27.1.1967
GV II

Church, 1840-41, perhaps by John Palmer (Pevsner). Sandstone ashlar,
slate roof. West tower with spire, nave with aisles under same roof,
short chancel. In Decorated style. Buttressed 5-bay nave has tall
3-light windows with intersecting cusped tracery; 4-light east window
has similar tracery, all have hoodmoulds. Four-stage tower has
diagonal buttresses, arched west door, tall deeply-recessed west window,
clockfaces at 3rd stage, set-back 4th stage with 2-light belfry openings,
embattled parapet with slim corner pinnacles, slim octagonal spire with
lucarnes in the cardinal faces on 2 levels. Interior: 5-bay arcades of
slim octagonal columns with shallow caps supporting arches with 2 orders
of moulding, galleries on 3 sides; very wide chancel arch; elaborate
Gothic carved screen advanced into centre of 1st bay of nave; elaborate
alabaster reredos in Renaissance style; marble pulpit on pedestal.

Listing NGR: SD7345715709

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Anne at Wikipedia
• Church of St Anne official website
• Wikidata Q26534434

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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