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St Anne

St Anne

Woodplumpton

Lancashire

Part Medieval, part late C15 or early C16, repaired or re-roofed 1639, part early-to mid-C18

Architectural Features

Nave with north and south aisles forming a parallelogram under 3 parallel roofs of approximately equal height, with west tower (C18) and north-east vestry (C20), This unusual arrangement is probably the result of successive additions to the south of the church of c.1300: a south aisle in the late C15 or early C16, which then became the nave when another aisle was built on its south side shortly afterwards

North aisle, the earliest part of the building, of intermixed red and yellow sandstone blocks, has a door and 3 windows (the easternmost now in the vestry and reduced to its chamfered reveal): doorway at west end, c.1400, has a pointed arched sunk-chamfered surround with paterae (flowers, fish, cross, letter M)

early C14 window of 2 trefoiled lights with a rounded trefoil in the head

north aisle has C17 collar truss roof, the tie-beams ovolo-moulded, and one at the east end inscribed "1639"

same aisle has large carved wall monument to Henry Foster d. 1831, navigator and astronomer, drowned in Mexico

fragments of C12 masonry displayed in former window now in vestry