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St Anne's Church is a redundant Anglican parish church in Tyldesley Road, Hindsford, Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[1]

History

The forerunner to this church was a mission church, also dedicated to St Anne, built on Swan Island in 1873. In 1884 Hindsford became a parish in its own right, and in 1889 the foundation stone was laid for this church.[2] It was designed by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley.[3] The church was completed in 1901 at a cost of £9,000 (equivalent to £1,230,000 in 2023).[2][4] It provided seating for 450 people, and was built on land given by Lord Lilford.[5] The church was declared redundant on 1 November 1999,[6] and was divided into flats in 2003–04.[3]

Architecture

The church is constructed in sandstone with Westmorland slate roofs. Its architectural style is Gothic Revival. The building is orientated northwest-southeast; in the following description ritual orientation is used. The plan consists of a four bay nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, a south transept, and a two-bay chancel with a tower and vestry to the south. The tower stands on a chamfered plinth. It has diagonal buttresses. one of which rises to an octagonal stair turret. The two-light bell openings are louvred and square-headed. The parapet is embattled, and the tower is surmounted by a pyramidal roof with a weathervane.[1] The windows contain Decorated tracery.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Historic England, "Church of St Anne, Wigan (1356248)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 January 2012
  2. ^ a b Lunn, John (1971), Atherton Lancashire, A manorial social and industrial history, Atherton UDC, p. 191
  3. ^ a b c Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 137, ISBN 0-300-10910-5
  4. ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)", MeasuringWorth, retrieved 7 May 2024
  5. ^ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, pp. 161, 243, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
  6. ^ Diocese of Manchester: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 6, retrieved 25 January 2012
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