Church of St Anne
CHURCH OF ST ANNE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241565
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Anne
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241565
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Anne
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE, HIGH STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Turton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 73457 15709
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440701
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Lancashire, (1969)
Legal
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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