St Anne's Church

St Anne’s Church stands on Church Road in Singleton, Lancashire, an active Anglican parish church built in the Early English style. The sandstone building has a slate roof, a nave, chancel, south transept and a north-east steeple with angled buttresses and a broach spire. Inside, the wagon roof of the chancel and monuments to the Miller family of Singleton Hall can be seen. The church was designed by Lancaster architect E. G. Paley and completed in 1860, replacing an earlier church demolished the year before. The church is worth the journey for its Grade II listing and the quality of its architecture. The steeple is described by the Buildings of England series as ‘well-proportioned’, and the plate tracery windows add to its character. The Miller family funded the building, and their memorials remain inside. The churchyard holds war graves of two soldiers from the First World War, and the lychgate itself is Grade II listed. Visitors find a quiet place of worship with a two-manual organ installed around 1875 by Peter Conacher of Huddersfield. The Occasional Singers perform at major feast days, weddings and funerals, led by organist Tony Brindle. Bell-ringers from Kirkham attend for weddings, though the church has no resident choir or ringers. The red-tiled lychgate bears the inscription ‘T. H. Miller 1879’.