St Anne's Church in Haughton,

Denton, Greater Manchester Denton is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, five miles (8 km) east of Manchester city centre. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Lancashire, it had a population of 36,591 at the 2011 Census. History Topo ...

, England, is a

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. The foundation stone was laid on 1 September 1880 and the church was finally completed on 29 July 1882. The building was designed by J. Medland Taylor and the construction was funded by E. Joseph Sidebotham, a member of the Sidebotham mill-owning family of Hyde. The church was built in brick in the

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style, but also utilised

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. It has been described as the best-known work of the architects, an 'extraordinary free-form brick church that forms the nucleus of the most important cluster of their buildings' surviving. The

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and

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that adjoin the main church are also of architectural significance, and each is on the register of protected buildings in its own right.

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