The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Anne (medieval)
Parish church
Thornbury is a village in the NE of the county, 7 miles E of Leominster and a mile S of the border with Shropshire. It is a small, compact village at the foot of Wall Hills, with its hillfort, and the church stands at its centre. St Anna's has a chancel rebuilt by F. R. Kempson, in 1865-66, with a N vestry and organ niche; a long aisleless nave with a N wall in which are a window and a blocked doorway of 12thc date. The S wall has a 13thc doorway under a 19thc porch. At the W end is a massive, unbuttressed 13thc tower with a pyramid roof. Romanesque features are the N doorway and a tub font.
Parish church
The church is cruciform in plan, with a central tower, a chancel, an aisled nave, north and south transepts, a south chapel, and north and south porches. The only Romanesque remains in this church form part of the crossing which was rebuilt during the 14th century. They appear to be the either the remains of a late 12th century crossing (Pevsner) or a nave arcade (VCH). The interpretation of Pevsner appears to be the more likely. The church is predominantly Perpendicular in date though the nave arcades date from the 13th century. The chancel was built in 1867 by Henry Weaver. The nave roof is dated 1638 and is therefore an early example of a kingpost roof with the base of the kingpost being expanded.