Wesleyan Church, Church Road, St Anne’s-on-the-Sea

ST. ANNE'S‑ON‑SEA.- A new Wesleyan church is about to be built in Church‑road, St. Anne's. The trustees invited a number of well‑known architects in Lancashire and Yorkshire to send in competitive designs for a new church, and from eight sets of plans received, a design sent in by Messrs. Herbert and Walter Wade, of St. Anne's and Blackpool, was selected. Messrs. Wade had sent in two dissimilar designs, and both were chosen in the last three for final selection. The one adopted is Gothic in style, and when complete the edifice will have cost about £5,500, and will seat 750 worshippers. At present it is proposed to defer the building of the transepts and gallery, so that the accommodation will be for 500. Parpoints with yellow stone dressings are to be used for external walls. The interior will consist of nave, two deep transepts, chancel, and an end gallery. The pulpit will be placed at the angle of the chancel, and the choir stalls in the chancel. The minister's vestry will be adjacent to the pulpits and on the opposite side are the organ chamber and choir‑vestry. The seating, dados, and roof timbers will be in pitch‑pine, and the roofing of Westmoreland green slates. Leaded lights will be inserted in the plain Gothic windows. The tower and spire will rise to a height of 120ft. [Building News 18 September 1903 page 373]

Reference           Building News 18 September 1903 page 373