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Parish Church of:
East Looe
The church of St Anne is a building of limestone, in the Gothic style of the 13th century, with arcades of Late Perpendicular work, and was erected in 1882-3 on the site of the old chapel (itself rebuilt in 1805) at a cost of £2,500; it consists of apsidal chancel, nave, north aisle, vestry, north and west porches and a low embattled western tower containing a clock and one bell cast in 1700: the interior is mostly of Ipplepen stone, the columns of the arcade of brown Portland stone and the detached shafts of polished Cornish marble: the five windows in the apse are stained, three having been erected by Mrs. Bishop, in memory of her husband, one by R.A. Peter esq, to his uncle, and the other by James Medland esq. to his wife; the Hearle family have also placed a memorial window in the nave, and on the south side is another erected in 1884 to john and Eulalia Richards: the stained west window was inserted in 1893 as a memorial to Mrs. Bishop; the circular window
in the north aisle was given by the architect: there are 360 sittings. The register of baptisms dates form the year 1719: records of marriage were formerly incorporated in the registers of St. Martin's-by-Looe, which date from 1653; and burials from East Looe still take place there.
N.B. This is no longer an active church.
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