Church of St Anne

CHURCH OF ST ANNE, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1188577
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Church of St Anne
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST ANNE, CHURCH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1188577
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Church of St Anne
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST ANNE, CHURCH ROAD

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST ANNE, CHURCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:
Brown Edge
National Grid Reference:
SJ 90522 54010

Details

BROWN EDGE C.P. CHURCH ROAD SJ 95 SW 4/20 - Church of St Anne

GV II

Parish church. 1844 by J.C. Trubshaw, extended 1854 by Ward and Son of Hanley, under the patronage of H.H. Williamson. Rock-faced coursed stone; tiled roof; verge parapets with bellcote to west. Neo-Norman tower, nave, chancel. Nave and chancel by Trubshaw. Nave: of 4 bays divided by 2-stage buttresses and with 3 round- arch windows to each bay; corbelled eaves and string at cill level; gabled porch to west end. Chancel: very small lower chancel of one bay; east window of 3 round arches, the centre taller and all with zig-zag ornament. Tower: by Ward, Iconoclastic Romanesque, set to the north-east of the church and dominating the site; square plan; of 3 stages with set-back buttresses up to the bell chamber; grotesque- head corbels to zig-zag frieze and widely projecting gargoyles under solid spire with scalloped finish in imitation of tiles; 2 pairs of lucarnes to each face; circular stair turret to north-east finished by a cone-shaped roof; 2-light round-arch bell chamber openings, 2 to each face with columns in deeply-set reveals between lights; round-arch window to north and round-arch door to west with elaborate low-relief carving in tympanum inscribed: "VICT 1854" within arch.

Listing NGR: SJ9052254010

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
274508
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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