Church of St Anne, Royton

Plans for a new church to serve the growing population of Royton were developed in the early 20th century. The parish was founded in 1908, and the building followed shortly afterwards. The project was promoted by the Rev. J. T. Ormerod, then a young curate at the Church of St Paul in Royton, who helped secure support for a substantial new church. The design was entrusted to the architect Temple Moore, one of the leading ecclesiastical architects of the period. Moore produced a distinctive passage‑aisled plan, a type he had developed in several of his later churches. Construction took place between 1908–09, and the completed building was noted for its sweeping nave roof, which extends down…

The Church of St Anne is constructed in snecked stone with a clay‑tile roof. A single roof carries the nave, chancel and aisle passages beneath. A shallow transept for the organ on the north side is balanced by a tower to the south, and there is a lean-to baptistry and porches at the west end, with a flat‑roofed lady chapel at the east end. The four‑bay nave and chancel have plain buttresses and one, three and one‑light windows with reticulated tracery. The chancel windows have been given additional enrichment. The church also contains an organ chamber that is gabled and a five‑stage tower with a corner stair turret, string courses defining each stage, a four‑light window in the second…