St Anne's Church, Soho | |
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Location | Soho, London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Denomination | Church of England |
History | |
Dedication | Saint Anne |
Dedicated | 1686 |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | William Talman and/or Christopher Wren |
Years built | 1677–1686 |
Administration | |
Province | Canterbury |
Diocese | London |
Archdeaconry | Charing Cross |
Deanery | Westminster St Margaret |
Parish | St Anne with St Thomas and St Peter, Soho |
St Anne's Church serves in the Church of England the Soho section of London. It was consecrated on 21 March 1686 by Bishop Henry Compton as the parish church of the new civil and ecclesiastical parish of St Anne Within the Liberty of Westminster, created from part of the parish of St Martin in the Fields. The church is under the Deanery of Westminster (St Margaret) in the Diocese of London.
Parts of its churchyard around its west including tower are now the public park of St Anne's Gardens, accessed from the Shaftesbury Avenue end of Wardour Street. The church is accessed via a gate at that end of Dean Street.
The parish, having spawned two new churches dedicated to Saints Thomas and Peter, reconsolidated on St Anne's in 1945.