St Ann

S chapels and chancel C14, W front rebuilt C16, porch and rebuilt S chapel C18, C19 restoration, C20 vestry.

the turret roof is a low, lead-covered pyramid, and there are 4 gargoyles.

The nave S front has a C14 two-light window left of the porch,

a small 2-light C16 window with plain pointed lights, to the right.

The deep square porch has a chamfered stone eaves course, and a coped gable over a small tablet inscribed 'WMCW 1733', below which is a large plain inscribed war memorial slab.

The N chapel, E side, has a 3-light C14 window without label, and a 3-light C14 with label in the S wall

In the internal corner is the flat-roofed vestry, and the N side of the nave has a lofty C16 2-light to 4-centred heads, and a small lancet.

much of this is late medieval work, with chamfered members.

FITTINGS: painted pews with floral panels, carved oak pulpit, 1902, in memory of Richard E E---sward, and a matching reading desk.

The E window is a memorial to Captain Prowse, 1885, above a late C19 stone reredos.

The polished oak communion rail incorporates 17 turned balusters of the C16 from a staircase at No.4 North Quay (RCHME).

The C13 font bowl, formerly square, but cut to a rounded front, is on a central shaft and 4 slender columns, and with a 1978 cover, opposite the porch.

Above the chancel arch are the Royal Arms of William IV, and there are various monuments, detailed in the RCHME inventory, but including a fine Baroque cartouche, in the nave, to Humphrey Hardy, d.1725, and a rectangular marble tablet with a St George and Dragon, with leaf enrichment, in Art Nouveau style, to Charleton W Gordon-Steward, Major in the 5th Fusiliers, killed in action, April 1917.

Above the font is a painted ceiling panel depicting St John the Baptist.

HISTORICAL NOTE: the Church of St Ann, now in a rather peripheral position in Weymouth, was the mother church for the area, until replaced by St Mary, St Mary Street (qv) in 1605.