Description

SINGLETON CHURCH ROAD
SD 33 NE
4/63 Church of St. Anne
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GV II

Church, 1861 by E.G. Paley for Thomas Miller of Singleton Lodge. Sandstone
rubble, slate roof. Nave with north-east steeple, south transept, chancel;
in Early English style. Three-stage tower has angle buttresses to the
lower stages, set-back 3rd stage with 2-light belfry louvres, broach spire
with small 2-light lucarnes. Nave and chancel have mostly plate-traceried
2-light windows, nave has tripartite west window with 2-light traceried
centre, chancel has 3-light traceried east window with wheel tracery in the
head. Interior: scissor-braced common rafter roof with collar purlin, and
painted wagon roof to chancel; depressed 2-centred transept arches, moulded
chancel arch with shafts; various memorials to members of the Miller
family, notably a decorated engraved brass plaque to Thomas Miller
(d.1865) with portrait in a roundel above a classical arch panel.
(Thomas Miller was principal proprietor of Preston cotton firm Horrocks,
Miller and Company).

Listing NGR: SD3850438372

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Anne's Church at Wikipedia
• St Anne's Church official website
• Wikidata Q7592479

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