Church of Saint Ann (Building No 1/66)
Church of Saint Ann (Building No 1/66), Anchor Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386817
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Ann (Building No 1/66)
- Statutory Address:
- Church of Saint Ann (Building No 1/66), Anchor Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386817
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Ann (Building No 1/66)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of Saint Ann (Building No 1/66), Anchor Lane
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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 Saint Ann (Building No 1/66), Anchor Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Portsmouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 63171 00567
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 March 2026 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
SU 6300 NW
774-1/29/185
ANCHOR LANE (South side)
HM Naval Base
Church of St Ann (Building No 1/66)
(Formerly listed as Church of St Ann (Building No 1/65))
25.9.72
GV
II
Church. 1785-1786; bomb-damaged 1941; restored 1955-1956. Possibly by Marquand, a Navy Board surveyor, working under Samuel Wyatt at Admiralty House, contractors Thomas Parlby & Sons. Red brick in Flemish bond; roof concealed.
PLAN/EXTERIOR: five-bay galleried nave (originally longer) with narrower one- bay "crossing" and narrower-still one-bay chancel with north and south vestries. At west end, cupola with bell. Plinth. Windows have brick arches, segmental on ground floor, round to gallery; ashlar sills; and C20 metal windows. Stepped eaves with ashlar cornice below coped parapet. West end: (rebuilt 1955-1958); three-bays. Corner pilasters support corniced pediment in which is blind oculus. Steps up to central pedimented ashlar porch with wide double door in architrave. Outer bays each have a flat- arched window linked by recessed brick panel to round- arched upper window; central upper window with keystone. Cupola (reconstructed) has columns supporting entablature and metalled dome surmounted by elaborate
weather-vane on ball.
INTERIOR: gallery on three sides (reconstructed 1955-1956) carried on columns with fluted capitals has panelled corniced front, and at centre early C18 carved wooden coat of arms of the Gifford family, incorporating royal coat of arms, figures of Justice (blindfolded and carrying scales) and Fame (with trumpet), and dolphins (Sir William Gifford was Commissioner of the dockyard from 1702-1705). Nave and chancel have panelled walls and ceiling cornice. Chancel arch flanked by pilasters surmounted by urns and with swagged drapes over arch. East window has pilasters with acanthus leaf capitals and "scalloped" archivolt with central laurel wreath; swagged drapes over. To nave ceiling, large elaborate chandelier roundel with acanthus leaf motifs and decorated scalloping; elegant pewter chandelier of 1704 (gilded 1956). Marble font of 1856. Eagle lectern 1882, Gothick-style wooden pulpit of 1906. Various C19 marble memorials.
HISTORY: the oldest surviving chapel in a navy yard and part of a good group with the ropery buildings and Commissioner's House (qqv). Graded to reflect the extensive mid C20 rebuilding of the front and refurnishing of the interior.
(Sources: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 71-72; The Buildings of England: Lloyd D: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1985: 436- 7; The Church of St Ann in Her Majesty's Naval Base at Portsmouth: 1991).
Listing NGR: SU6317100567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474226
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Church of St Ann in Her Majestys Naval Base at Portsmouth, (1991)
Pevsner, N, Lloyd, D, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1985), 436-437
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 71-72
Coad, J, Historic Architecture of H M Naval Base Portsmouth 1700-1850, (1981), 16
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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