St Anne's Church, Edge Hill
St Anne's Church is in Overbury Street, Edge Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is an active Roman Catholic parish church in the Archdiocese of Liverpool.[1] In 1999 its parish was combined with that of the Church of St Bernard.[2] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[3]
History
St Anne's was built between 1843 and 1846, designed by Charles Hansom,[4] and built by the monks of Downside Abbey.[2] It was enlarged in 1888–89 by Pugin and Pugin, who added a chancel, an apse, and two transepts, and in 1893 by Peter Paul Pugin who added a baptistry.[4] At an unknown date its care passed from the monks of Downside Abbey to those of Ampleforth Abbey, and in 1950 the church became part of the Archdiocese of Liverpool.[2] In 1969 the interior of the church was reordered, with the removal of the baldacchino and altar rails, and the installation of an altar.[4]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is built in red sandstone,[4] and has a slate roof.[3] Its style is early Decorated.[4] The plan consists of a six-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles with lean-to roofs, north and south transepts, an apsidal three-bay chancel, and a west tower. The tower is supported by angle buttresses, and has an octagonal stair turret on the southeast corner. It has a west entrance with four orders, above which is a four-light window and a canopied niche. The bell stage contains pairs of two-light louvred bell openings.[3] Pollard and Pevsner comment that the tower is prominent, but that it looks as though it is "sliced"; this is because the intended spire was not built from fear of subsidence.[4] The aisles have two-light windows along the sides, and three-light windows at the west ends. The clerestory contains quatrefoils under pointed arches. In the transepts are two-light west windows, and five-light north and south windows. The windows contain geometric tracery.[3]
Interior
Inside the church, the arcades are carried on quatrefoil columns. Between the chancel and the chapels on one side, and the organ loft on the other side, the arcades are carried on a double row of columns. Around the apse is an arcade containing lancet windows.[4] In the church is a three-manual pipe organ built originally by Henry Willis and Sons and Lewis and Company.[5] This was rebuilt and modernised in 1958, again by Willis and Sons.[6]
Associated features
In the churchyard is a stone memorial to two members of the Linford family who died, respectively, in 1849 and 1855. It was designed by A. Murphy, and consists of an octagonal pillar standing on a plinth. It contains a niche under a canopy, and at the top are two sculpted figures, considered to be the Virgin Mary and St John. It is listed at Grade II.[7] Attached to the northwest of the church is a large presbytery, built in 1893 and designed by Peter Paul Pugin. This is also listed at Grade II.[4][8]
See also
References
- ^ Home, St Anne's Parish, Liverpool, retrieved 3 September 2013
- ^ a b c St Anne's Story (PDF), St Anne's Parish, Liverpool, retrieved 3 September 2013
- ^ a b c d Historic England, "Church of St Anne (1072983)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 3 September 2013
- ^ a b c d e f g h Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 411, ISBN 0-300-10910-5
- ^ Lancashire (Merseyside), Liverpool--Edge Hill, St. Anne, 7 Overbury Street (N10862), British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 3 September 2013
- ^ Lancashire (Merseyside), Liverpool--Edge Hill, St. Anne, 7 Overbury Street (N10863), British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 3 September 2013
- ^ Historic England, "Memorial in yard of Church of St. Anne (1072985)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 3 September 2013
- ^ Historic England, "Presbytery to Church of St. Anne (1072984)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 3 September 2013
- v
- t
- e
- Archbishops and bishops of Liverpool
- I: George Brown
- II: Alexander Goss
- III: Bernard O'Reilly
- IV: Thomas Whiteside
- V: Frederick Keating
- VI: Richard Downey
- VII: William Godfrey
- VIII: John Heenan
- IX: George Beck
- X: Derek Worlock
- XI: Patrick Kelly (Bishop Emeritus)
- XII: Malcolm McMahon
- Churches
- Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral - Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King
- Church of St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith, Ashton-in-Makerfield
- St Mary's Church, Billinge
- St Joseph's Church, Birkdale
- Church of St Teresa of Avila, Birkdale
- Church of St Monica, Bootle
- St Michael's Church, Ditton
- St Mary of the Isle Church, Douglas
- St Anne's Church, Edge Hill
- Sacred Heart Church, Hindsford
- Church of the Holy Family, Ince Blundell
- St John the Evangelist's Church, Kirkdale
- St Joseph's Church, Leigh
- St Mary's Church, Little Crosby
- Our Lady of the Annunciation Church, Liverpool
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Liverpool
- Church of Our Lady of Reconciliation, Liverpool
- Sacred Heart Church, Liverpool
- St Aloysius Church, Liverpool
- St Anthony's Church, Scotland Road
- St Anthony of Padua Church, Liverpool
- St Clare's Church, Liverpool
- St Francis Xavier Church, Liverpool
- St Mary's Church, Woolton
- St Oswald's Church, Liverpool
- St Patrick's Church, Liverpool
- St Philip Neri Church, Liverpool
- Church of St Vincent de Paul, Liverpool
- St Oswald's Church, Padgate
- Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Portico
- Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph Church, Prescot
- St Bartholomew's Church, Rainhill
- Our Lady, Star of the Sea & St Maughold Church, Ramsey
- Our Lady Star of the Sea, Seaforth
- Church of St Mary, Lowe House
- Holy Cross Church, St Helens
- St Ambrose's Church, Speke
- St Alban's Church, Warrington
- St Benedict's Church, Warrington
- St Mary's Church, Warrington
- St Bede's Church, Widnes
- St John's Church, Wigan
- St Jude's Church, Wigan
- St Mary's Church, Wigan
- Patronal Feasts of the Diocese
- Saint Joseph (19 March)
- Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (8 December)
- Schools
- St Mary's College, Crosby
- The Academy of St Francis of Assisi
- The Academy of St Nicholas
- All Hallows Catholic High School
- All Saints Catholic High School, Kirkby
- Archbishop Beck Catholic College
- Bellerive FCJ Catholic College
- Broughton Hall High School
- Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
- Carmel College (St Helens)
- Christ the King Catholic High School, Southport
- De La Salle School, St Helens
- Holy Cross Catholic High School, Chorley
- Holy Family Catholic High School, Thornton
- Hope Academy
- Maricourt Catholic School
- Notre Dame Catholic College, Liverpool
- Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Engineering College
- Sacred Heart Catholic College
- St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy
- St Bede's Catholic High School, Ormskirk
- St Cuthbert's Catholic High School
- St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy, Whiston
- St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield
- St Edward's College
- St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool
- St John Bosco Arts College
- St John Fisher Catholic High School, Wigan
- St Julie's Catholic High School
- St Mary's Catholic High School, Astley
- St Mary's Catholic High School, Leyland
- St Peter's Catholic High School
- Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School
- The Salesian Academy of St John Bosco
- Catholicism portal
- Liverpool portal