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CHURCHES, CHAPELS AND PLACES OF WORSHIP  |  ANGLICAN CHURCHES

CHURCH OF SAINT ANNE

Updated:  09 June 2011 

The tiny wooden Church of Saint Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was located in Foliot Road, North Prospect, Devonport.

In July 1929 a notice board, surmounted by a cross, was erected at the site of the proposed Church of Saint Anne and an open-air service was conducted by the Church of England Missionary Society in front of the board on Sunday July 14th 1929, after the consecration of the Church of Saint Thomas at Keyham.  [1]

The wooden building was erected in 1930 as a mission church for Saint Mark's Church, Ford.

Before the Second World War it was intended to replace the Church with a permanent building and a vicarage but that never happend.  Instead, a new Church was opened at the western end of Ham Drive and took the name of Saint James the Less in remembrance of the original Church of that name in Keyham Road that was destroyed during the Plymouth Blitz.


Sources:

[1]  "Keyham New Parish: Another Site", Western Morning News, Plymouth, July 15th 1929.

©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth, UK

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