| 词条 | Old St Ann's Church, Warrington |
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Slate roof }}St Ann's Church is a redundant Anglican church in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.[1] The church was closed for worship in November 1995, and since 1996 has been used as an indoor climbing centre.[2] From the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s the church was heated by steam from the then adjacent Tetley Walker's brewery.[1] A new church, also dedicated to St Ann, was built on a different site half a mile away in 2000.[2] HistoryThe church was built between 1866 and 1868 to a design by John Douglas.[1] There were delays caused by bad weather, and it was not until local solicitor William Beamont paid the builder that the church was consecrated, on 27 February 1869.[3] In 1996 it became a climbing centre with a mezzanine in the chancel. These changes are said to be reversible.[4] ArchitectureThe church is built in red brick with some dressings in blue brick and it has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a six-bay nave without aisles, an apsidal chancel, north and south porches, a north vestry and a southeast tower. The tower is in the angle between the nave and the chancel and in three stages. In the lower stage is a single lancet window and in the second stage are three similar windows. The third stage contains pairs of louvred bell openings and above these is a corbelled parapet. On the southwest corner is a stair-turret rising to the height of the tower and capped by a tall conical-roofed turret rising above the parapet. On top of the tower is a tall steeply-pitched saddleback roof.[1] In the sanctuary (but currently obscured) are paintings of The Evangelists by Westlake, dated 1868, which were repainted by T. Hesketh in 1894.[4] Edward Hubbard describes its architecture as being "quite startlingly bold and original".[5] In the Buildings of England series it is described as being "an impressively forceful High Victorian work..., bold and uncompromising", and the "bizarre juxtaposition" of the climbing walls and 19th-century architecture is described as "strangely enjoyable".[4]See also{{Portal|Cheshire}}
References1. ^1 2 3 {{NHLE |num= 1161591|desc= Church of St Ann, Warrington|accessdate= 1 December 2012|mode=cs2|ps=none}} 2. ^{{citation |url=http://www.communigate.co.uk/chesh/stanns/index.phtml |title=St Ann's, Warrington |accessdate=24 March 2008 |publisher=Newsquest Media Group }} 3. ^{{citation | last =Parish| first =Stephen | title =The History of St Ann's Warrington| isbn =0-9538345-0-6 }} 4. ^1 2 3 {{Citation | last =Pollard| first =Richard | authorlink = | last2 = Pevsner | first2 = Nikolaus | author2-link =Nikolaus Pevsner| series= The Buildings of England|title =Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West |edition= | publisher =Yale University Press | year =2006 | location =New Haven and London | page = 621| url = | doi = | id = | isbn =0-300-10910-5 }} 5. ^{{Citation|last= Hubbard |first= Edward |authorlink= Edward Hubbard |title= The Work of John Douglas | publisher =The Victorian Society |year = 1991 |location= London |pages= 55–56 |isbn= 0-901657-16-6 }} External links
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