Church of St Anne
CHURCH OF ST ANNE, TYDLESLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356248
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Anne
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE, TYDLESLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356248
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Anne
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE, TYDLESLEY ROAD
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, TYDLESLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 68188 02581
Details
The following building shall be added: ATHERTON TYLDESLEY ROAD SD 60 SE (west side), 2/63 Hinsford Church of St Anne II Church, 1899-1901. By Austin and Paley. Thinly-coursed sandstone, graduated Westmorland slate roof. Orientated north-west/south-east, ritual orientation used here. 4-bay aisled nave with south porch and transept; 2-bay chancel with tower and vestry against south side. In Gothic Revival style. Nave: gabled porch to right; offset buttress divides 4 two-light windows with sill bond, hollow-chamfered surrounds and cusped tracery. Gabled transept has tall 4-light window with reticulated tracery under pointed arch and hoodmould. North side: 3:4:2 windows (as south) divided by buttresses. Buttresses flank quadrant-moulded west window of 4 lights under pointed arch and hoodmould; square-headed, 2-light aisle windows. Coped gable with slit and apex cross. Tower: chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses; tall 2-light window with hoodmould, string course beneath short belfry stage with louvred, square-headed 2-light openings; buttress on right rises as octagonal turret at corner of embattled parapet; pyramidal roof with weathervane. Chancel: traceried 3-light windows to each side; large buttresses flank pointed 5-light east window with reticulated tracery and hoodmould. Vestry in angle with tower is gabled to south and has 3-and 2-light windows with sill bond which rises as hood over shouldered lintel of east doorway.
Interior: Aisles have alternate hexagonal and round piers, double-chamfered arches. Arch-braced king-post roof. Double-chamfered chancel arch. Corbelled and ribbed arch beneath tower. Contemporary pews. Marble font under wooden-spire cover.
Listing NGR: SD6818802581
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213548
- 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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