Parish Church Of St Anne

The Parish Church of St Anne is a largely mid-12th century rebuilding with 13th-century and later additions, including 19th and 20th-century restoration work. The church comprises a three-bay nave, now aisleless, a two-bay chancel, a south porch, a west tower, and a south chapel dated 1790. It is constructed of rubble with a stone tile roof, and there is a circular plan chimney adjacent to the south porch.

The three-stage west tower has lost its 17th-century pinnacles and is unbuttressed, except for two newer weathered buttresses framing a 19th-century perpendicular-style west window. Single, two-light bell-chamber windows feature mitred arches. The chancel has trefoil-headed lancet windows, with three stepped lancets having foil heads to the east. Nave windows have been restored in Decorated and Perpendicular styles. A gabled south porch has a pointed arch, with a sundial at the apex of the gable. A good 1130s or earlier Norman south doorway is present, featuring chevron outer orders, nook shafts with scallop caps, a tympanum carved with a Tree of Life, cable moulding, and saltire crosses on the chamfered jambs and abaci of the caps. The plank door has plain straps, and the outer porch door is from the 17th century, with wrought iron straps, hinges, and an ovolo-moulded baluster rail in the upper part. A Norman north door, now a window, has a now glazed tympanum and a reused lintel bearing saltire crosses and roll-mouldings. The chancel, dating to around 1300, has a blocked priest's door to the south.

Inside, the inner surround of the south door has a chamfered arch retaining some of its saltire crosses and similar chip-carved ornament. The nave has a 19th-century collar-beam roof, and the chancel has a waggon roof, likely from the 18th century. A painted chancel arch, chancel roof, east wall, glass, and pavement date from 1887 onwards. A notable feature is a lead font dating from approximately 1160-70, of a group found in south Gloucestershire, closely resembling the one at Frampton-on-Severn, and decorated with arcading, depictions of Christ and the Evangelists, and scrollwork. There is also a 17th-century pulpit. Several wall monuments are present, including a brass dating from 1680 in the chancel, and a monument to Fiennes Trotman (died 1835) which alludes to Siston Court and demonstrates the excellence of craftwork in a revived Jacobean style.