Church of St Anne
CHURCH OF ST ANNE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281325
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Anne
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281325
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Anne
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE
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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.
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hugill
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 44608 98633
Details
SD 49 NW HUGILL Ings
5/18 Church of St Anne 12/2/62
G.V. II*
Parish Church dated 1743 on plaque, restored and North Transept added in 1877. Roughly coursed rubble walls, sandstone quoins and window surrounds, graduated greenslate roof and stone ridge. Stone urns to each corner. 6 bays. Continuous nave and chancel. Square tower at West end with corniced ashlar parapet surmounted by 8 stone flaming torches. West entrance in base of tower has plain classical doorcase with broken pediment enclosing the coat of arms of Robert Bateman of Reston Hall (q.v.). A plaque over the door is inscribed "This Chapel was begun to be built Anno Domini 1743 at ye sole expense of Mr Robert Bateman Merchant of Leghorn Born in this Hamlet but He Dying suddenly the same year the work was ordered and appointed to be finished by his Executors". C19 studded wooden double doors fitted with wooden lock apparently dated 1682 but very worn. East window: Venetian with rusticated central architrave within open and broken pediment; remaining windows: arched heads with keystones and impost blocks. Interior has coved and panelled ceiling, said to have been plastered during C19 restoration, with continuous frieze and dentil cornice, supported by Ionic pillars on pedestals in the chancel. East window, to memory of Isabella Thompson and signed by Edward Frampton, is flanked by panels with quotations from the Bible set in C19 Jacobean style panelling; C18 turned altar rails; brass in chancel commemorating the restoration of 1877 with poem by Wordsworth to Robert Bateman. Opening in West Tower filled with 3-stage screen of Corinthian order. Lower stage has round-headed double doors with small twisted pilasters, flanked by Corinthian pilasters with defaced capitals. Royal Arms above. Marble floor sent from Italy by Bateman. C18 font with cherub heads possibly with later pedestal.
Listing NGR: SD4460898633
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76470
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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