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St Anne

Wyre Piddle

Worcestershire

DATES OF MAIN PHASES, NAME OF ARCHITECT: Parish church of C12 origin, restored in 1888-89 by W.J. Hopkins.

Architectural Features

MATERIALS: Local grey lias rubble laid in regular courses, with freestone dressings and quoins, tile roof.

In the south wall is a 2-light window with geometrical tracery, a straight-headed 3-light Tudor-Gothic window, and a blocked pointed doorway.

The north side has a 2-light Tudor-Gothic window.

The narrow C12 chancel arch is on plain imposts, and is flanked by post-Reformation squints.

the chancel has a floor of mainly medieval encaustic tiles, arranged there in 1889.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The Norman font was renewed in 1986.

The old font bowl, with arrow-head and chevron friezes, is in the sanctuary (and similar to the font at Abberton).

In the chancel is a pillar piscina on a round column, and next to it a C13 shelf that retains part of it stiff-leaf corbel but has otherwise been rebuilt.

The polygonal pulpit is on a stone base.

The west window contains fragments of medieval glass.

Glass in the porch is by Francis Stephens and Hardman In a glass cupboard in the north wall are fragments of carved masonry found during the 1889 restoration.

The church is C12 origin

C7

had later fenestration and doorways before its restoration by W.J. Hopkins, architect of Worcester, in 1888-89 at a cost of £700.

C8

A. Brooks and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, 2007, p 783.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of St Anne, Wyre Piddle, is listed Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * For its surviving C12 work, including chancel arch, font

pillar piscina. * It has other medieval features of special interest, including corbelled shelf, C15 tiles and stained-glass fragments.