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Church of St Anne

A Grade II Listed Building in Edgworth, Blackburn with Darwen

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6372 / 53°38'14"N

Longitude: -2.4029 / 2°24'10"W

OS Eastings: 373457

OS Northings: 415709

OS Grid: SD734157

Mapcode National: GBR CVNC.KW

Mapcode Global: WH97H.2V10

Plus Code: 9C5VJHPW+VR

Entry Name: Church of St Anne

Listing Date: 27 January 1967

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1241565

English Heritage Legacy ID: 440701

Also known as: St Anne's Church, Turton

ID on this website: 101241565

Location: St Anne's Church, Chapeltown, Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, BL7

County: Blackburn with Darwen

Civil Parish: North Turton

Built-Up Area: Edgworth

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Turton St Anne

Church of England Diocese: Manchester

Tagged with: Church building

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

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