St Anne's Church is a
Grade II* listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
parish church in the
Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain ...
in
Buxton, Derbyshire
Buxton is a spa town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It is England's highest market town, sited at some above sea level. .
History
The single-storey church dates from the 17th century. It is believed to be the oldest building in Buxton. The date of 1625 is carved on the
Saxon
The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic
*
*
*
*
peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
font and on the porch but it incorporated an earlier building, believed to have been a tithe barn or a farmhouse. The vestry was added at the side of the original rectangular building in 1715. The church was refurbished in 1841 and extended in 1894. The slate roof was restored in 1956.
St Anne's Church was converted to a school following the completion of the new
Buxton parish church of St John the Baptist in 1811. It was then used as a Sunday school and as a mortuary chapel. The church was later closed before being reinstated for church services in 1885.
The
Methdodist preacher
John Wesley
John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English people, English cleric, Christian theology, theologian, and Evangelism, evangelist who was a leader of a Christian revival, revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The soci ...
delivered a sermon in the church when he visited Buxton on 24 May 1783. The 18th-century Irish comedy actor
John Kane was buried in the graveyard in 1799 (after he died mistakenly eating
hemlock or
wolf's bane
''Aconitum'' (), also known as aconite, monkshood, wolf's-bane, leopard's bane, mousebane, women's bane, devil's helmet, queen of poisons, or blue rocket, is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae. ...
).
His gravestone is Grade II listed.
Parish status
The church is in a joint parish with:
* Christ Church,
Burbage
* Christ Church,
King Sterndale
King Sterndale is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. It is located in the Peak District, 4 miles east of Buxton. It has a population of about 30, increasing to 133 at the 2011 Census. The two hamlets of Cowdale and Staden also li ...
* St James' Church, Buxton
*
St John The Baptist Church, Buxton
* St Mary's Church, Buxton
See also
*
Grade II* listed buildings in High Peak
There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district of High Peak in Derbyshire.
List of buildings
See also
* Grade I listed buildings in Derbyshire
* Grade II ...
*
Listed buildings in Buxton
Buxton is a spa town in the High Peak, Derbyshire, High Peak district of Derbyshire, England. The town contains 93 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is ...
References
{{Reflist
Grade II* listed churches in Derbyshire
Buildings and structures in Buxton