Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/01/2013

TL 41 NE
4/34

HIGH WYCH
Allen's Green
SLOUGH ROAD (north side)
Former Church of St Anne, at E side of junction with Allen's Green Road

(Formerly listed as CHURCH OF ST ANNE at E side of junction with Allen's Green Road)

GV
II

Mission Church. 1863 (WEA II (1967) 30) by G E Pritchett (1824-
1912) (Builder 8.3.1912 283). Small pretty Victorian mission
church; E parts in masonry but nave still timberframed.
Uncoursed flint with white brick for dressings, quoins and plinth
offset and with stone windows to chancel and vestry:
timberframed nave, plastered verges and eaves. Square shingled
bell-turret over chancel. Wrought iron crosses over each gable
and bracketed, gabed door hood, and wrought iron finial to bell
turret. Unaisled rectangular nave with S door, polygonal apse to
chancel, and a rectangular gabed vestry as a S transept,
curtained off from chancel. 2-light wood mullioned windows to
nave, with diamond leaded glazing. Heavy plank S door with
decorative iron hinges. Drip board on shaped brackets above each
window and continuous over weatherboarded apron. 2 round nosed
steps to door. Similar W door into vestry with 2-light stone,
chamfered mullioned S window, with square head and diamond leaded
glazing. W end has central cross window and grooved timbers
dividing rough plaster above weatherboarded apron. Horizontal
drip boards on shaped brackets at 4 levels and similar offset over
low brick plinth. Masonry structure inside possibly to carry a W
bell turret, built before E turret decided on. 4 windows along N
side of nave, and brick buttress at change to flint masonry of
chancel. Interior intact, with scissor-braced pine roof,
ornamental tiled chancel floor rising in 3 marble steps, altar
rail on wrought iron standards, heavy altar table with ornamental
cusped bracing on front, 2 stained glass windows flanking the
altar, octagonal stone font on slender shafts, and swing-back
pine benches. A complete and well-preserved mission church of
1863 by G E Pritchett still retaining a timberframed nave,
presumably regarded as a temporary expedient when built.

Listing NGR: TL4549316813

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514987

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings