BIRKENHEAD, ST. ANNE, Beckwith Street. By William Cole, c.l846-50. Awkward and papery Gothic, despite its date. It possesses a certain charm, though The Ecclesiologist was not enamoured. Red ashlar. Dec and Perp. W tower and crocketed spire richly treated. Statues in canopied niches flank the transept doorways. No aisles. Transepts as deep as the length of the nave w of them and divided from the nave by stone triple arcades. The roof trying to be a hammerbeam. The chancel was more than doubled in length in 1892 by Charles Aldridge.

Clearly, this was written before the re-ordering when the transepts were screened off with glass and the chancel arch (unfortunately) bricked up.