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© Mr F. Bryan Basketter LRPS
IoE Number:
212972
Location:
CHURCH OF ST ANN, CHESTER ROAD (south east side)
STRETFORD, TRAFFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr F. Bryan Basketter LRPS
Date Photographed:
14 August 2003
Date listed:
30 June 1987
Date of last amendment:
30 June 1987
Grade
II
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STRETFORD CHESTER ROAD
SJ 79 SE
(SJ 7994 NE) (south-east side)
5/14 Church of
St. Ann
-
G.V. II
Roman Catholic Church. 1862-7. By E. W. Pugin. Rock-faced
stone with slate roof. Nave, aisle passages, north-west
tower and small polygonal apse. 9-bay nave and aisles with
projecting plinth, weathered buttresses, 2-light aisle
windows with Geometrical tracery and circular clerestory
windows with carved stops to hoodmoulds. Apse below
continuation of nave roof has similar windows to aisle on
each face but below gablets. Plain water spouts. West rose
window incorporates a Crucifixus. West door. 3-stage tower
with north door, tall lancets, quatrefoil windows, arched
belfry openings below gable hoodmoulds and plain pinnacles
at each corner of the spire. The donors of the church, Sir
Humphrey and Lady Annette de Trafford, are depicted in a
carved panel at the base of the church, kneeling and holding
a representation of the church. Interior: moulded nave
arcade arches on circular columns with delicately carved
foliated capitals. Scissor-braced roof trusses. Elaborately
painted vault to apse. Sculpted reredos and figures below
canopies to either side of the chancel arch.