St Ann's Church, Warrington
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| St Ann's Church, Warrington | |
Southeast aspect of St Ann's Church, Warrington |
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  Position of St Ann's Church, Warrington in Cheshire
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| Basic information | |
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| Location | Warrington, Cheshire, England |
| Geographic coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Year consecrated | 1869 |
| Ecclesiastical status | Redundant church |
| Functional status | Indoor climbing centre |
| Architectural description | |
| Architect(s) | John Douglas |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1866 |
| Year completed | 1868 |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Red brick with blue brick dresings Slate roof |
St Ann's Church, Warrington is a redundant church in Warrington, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ606890). It is a Grade II* listed building.[1] It was made redundant in 1995 and is now an indoor climbing centre.[2] From the mid-1960s to the mid-80s the church was heated by steam from the adjacent Tetley Walker's brewery.[1]
A new St Ann's church on a different site half a mile away was built in 2000.[3]
[edit] History
The church was built between 1866 and 1868 to a design by John Douglas.[1] There were delays caused by bad weather, and it was not until William Beamont paid the builder that the church was consecrated, on 27 February 1869.[4] In 1996 it became a climbing centre with a mezzanine in the chancel. These changes are said to be reversible.[5]
[edit] Structure
It is built in red brick with some dressings in blue brick and it has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a six-bay nave without aisles, an apsidal chancel, north and south porches, a north vestry and a southeast tower. The tower is in the angle between the nave and the chancel and in in three stages. In the lower stage is a single lancet window and in the second stage are three similar windows. The third stage contains pairs of louvred bell openings and above these is a corbelled parapet. On the southwest corner is a stair-turret rising to the height of the tower and capped by a tall conical-roofed turret rising above the parapet. On top of the tower is a tall steeply-pitched saddle-back roof.[1] In the sanctuary (but currently obscured) are paintings of The Evangelists by Westlake, dated 1868, which were repainted by T. Hesketh in 1894.[5]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d Images of England: Church of St Ann, Warrington. English Heritage. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
- ^ North West Face. North West Face. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
- ^ St Ann's, Warrington. Newsquest Media Group. Retrieved on 2008-03-24.
- ^ Parish, Stephen. The History of St Ann's Warrington. ISBN 0-9538345-0-6.
- ^ a b Pollard, Richard; Nikolaus Pevsner (2006). The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 621. ISBN 0 300 10910 5.
