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{{Infobox church | name = St Anne's Church, Hindsford| fullname = | image = St Anne's Church, Atherton.jpg| imagesize = | imagealt = | caption = St Anne's Church, Hindsford| pushpin map = Greater Manchester| pushpin map alt = | pushpin mapsize = 250 | pushpin label position = | map caption = Location in Greater Manchester| location = Tyldesley Road, [[Hindsford]], [[Atherton, Greater Manchester|Atherton]], [[Greater Manchester]]| country = England | coordinates = {{coord|53.5188|-2.4812|region:GB_type:landmark|display=title}} | osgraw = SD 682 026| denomination = [[Anglican]] | churchmanship = | membership = | attendance = | website =  | former name = | bull date = | founded date = | founder = | dedication = | dedicated date = | consecrated date = | cult = | relics = | events = | past bishop = | people = | status = Former [[parish church]]| functional status = [[redundant church|Redundant]]| heritage designation = Grade II| designated date = 18 October 1991| architect = [[Austin and Paley]]| architectural type = [[Church (building)|Church]]| style = [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]]| groundbreaking = 1889| completed date = 1901| construction cost = £9,000| closed date = 1999| demolished date = | capacity = | length = | width = | width nave = | height = | diameter = | other dimensions = | floor count = | floor area = | spire quantity = | spire height = | materials = [[Sandstone]],<br />[[Westmorland]] [[slate]] roofs }}

'''St Anne's Church''' is a [[redundant church|redundant]] [[Anglican]] [[parish church]] in Tyldesley Road, [[Hindsford]], [[Atherton, Greater Manchester|Atherton]], [[Greater Manchester]], England.  It is recorded in the [[National Heritage List for England]] as a designated Grade&nbsp;II [[Listed building#England and Wales|listed building]].<ref name=nhl>{{NHLE |num= 1356248|desc= Church of St Anne, Wigan|accessdate= 25 January 2012|mode=cs2}}</ref>

==History==

The forerunner to this church was a mission church, also [[Dedication (ritual)|dedicated]] to St Anne, built on Swan Island in 1873.  In 1884 Hindsford became a [[parish]] in its own right, and in 1889 the foundation stone was laid for this church.<ref name=lunn>{{citation |last=Lunn |first=John |title=Atherton Lancashire, A manorial social and industrial history |publisher=Atherton UDC |year=1971 |page = 191}}</ref>  It was designed by the [[Lancaster, Lancashire|Lancaster]] architects [[Austin and Paley]].<ref name=pev>{{Citation | last =Pollard| first =Richard | last2 = Pevsner | first2 = Nikolaus | author2-link =Nikolaus Pevsner| series= The Buildings of England|title =Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West | publisher =[[Yale University Press]] | year =2006 | location =New Haven and London | page = 137| isbn =0-300-10910-5 }}</ref>  The church was completed in 1901 at a cost of £9,000 ({{Inflation|UK|9000|1901|r=-4|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).<ref name=lunn/>{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y|mode=cs2}}  It provided seating for 450&nbsp;people, and was built on land given by [[John Powys, 5th Baron Lilford|Lord Lilford]].<ref>{{Citation | last = Brandwood| first = Geoff| last2 = Austin| first2 = Tim| last3 = Hughes| first3 = John| last4 = Price| first4 = James| year = 2012| title = The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin| publication-place = Swindon| publisher = [[English Heritage]]| pages = 161, 243| isbn = 978-1-84802-049-8}}</ref>  The church was declared redundant on 1&nbsp;November 1999,<ref>{{Citation | year = 2011| title = Diocese of Manchester: All Schemes| series = Church Commissioners/Statistics| publisher = [[Church of England]]| page = 6| format = PDF | url = http://www.churchofengland.org/media/810742/manchester.pdf| access-date =25 January 2012}}</ref> and was divided into flats in 2003–04.<ref name=pev/>

==Architecture==

The church is constructed in [[sandstone]] with [[Westmorland]] [[slate]] roofs.  Its architectural style is [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]].  The building is orientated northwest-southeast; in the following description [[Orientation of churches|ritual orientation]] is used.  The plan consists of a four [[bay (architecture)|bay]] [[nave]], north and south [[aisle]]s, a south porch, a south [[transept]], and a two-bay [[chancel]] with a tower and [[vestry]] to the south.  The tower stands on a [[chamfer]]ed [[plinth]].  It has diagonal [[buttress]]es. one of which rises to an octagonal stair [[Turret (architecture)|turret]].  The two-light bell openings are [[louver|louvred]] and square-headed.  The [[parapet]] is [[battlement|embattled]], and the tower is surmounted by a pyramidal roof with a [[weathervane]].<ref name=nhl/>  The windows contain [[English Gothic architecture#Decorated Gothic|Decorated]] [[tracery]].<ref name=pev/>

==See also==
{{portal|Greater Manchester}}
* [[Listed buildings in Atherton, Greater Manchester]]
* [[List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1895–1914)]]

==References==
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[[Category:Former Church of England church buildings]]
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[[Category:Grade II listed churches in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan|Hindsford]]
[[Category:Austin and Paley buildings]]
[[Category:Gothic Revival church buildings in England]]
[[Category:Gothic Revival architecture in Greater Manchester]]
[[Category:Atherton, Greater Manchester]]