St. Anne’s is a simple compact structure encouraging closeness of worship and community. Visitors and newcomers have described it as a welcoming church and every effort is made to make it so. St Anne’s is accessible by wheelchair and we have a loop system which is used at every service.
Tradiiton is middle Anglican and we welcome all worshippers whatever their persuasion.
Adjacent to the church is a well-used church hall which caters for several different ac‐tivities for residents. We have recently upgraded the choir vestry and created a storearea which has improved faciliites for church groups, younger people and possiblysmaller groups within the community.Our toddler group, “Cheeky Cherubs” meets every Monday in term time from 10-11.30 am. It offers crafts, singing, Bible stories, and a chance for accompanying adults to chat and enjoy a brew!
Our bereavement support groups meet monthly.
A bit of the building’s history:
Work on St. Anne’s Church began in April 1873 and the consecration took place a year later. It cost £1,500. Wrenthorpe, in those days, was a working-class mining village and in no way prosperous. And yet £750 was raised towards the cost of the church before building had started, and over those early years many appeals for such things as a new organ, heating system and many repairs were generously met. An inscription on the west external wall of church reflects people’s pride in what they had achieved in building the church!
Major reordering took place in 1990 and 1993. In 2010 the old pews were replaced with upholstered chairs.
In 2017, thanks to a community-wide fundraising campaign, the village war memorial, which had become very badly eroded, was replaced by a fine new slate stone. Additional names were added and the memorial was dedicated by Bishop David Hope, a former Archbishop of York.