Foxham
(01249) 817926
http://www.mardenvale.org.uk

The church was built in 1878-81 by William Butterfield. It has a narrow tower and is made of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof.  The south side of the nave is barge boarded with a stone porch and timbering to the front.

The interior, also by Butterfield, has been unaltered.  There is a lot of red, black and slate blue tiling with patterned encaustic tiles.  The nave has a tiled dado on the walls and a full height timber screen which dominates the area.

A stained glass window of c.1855 was formerly the east window of Bremhill Church.  There is a canted, ceiled wagon roof. The church had two bells in 1879, both small. 

In October 2010 at a service of inauguration led by The Right Reverend Stephen Conway, the Bishop of Ramsbury, the parishes of Derry Hill, Bremhill and Foxham combined with that of Calne and Blacklands to form the Marden Vale Team Ministry.

Bremhill
(01249) 817926
http://www.mardenvale.org.uk

St Martin’s Church is an Anglican Church built c.1200.   It was altered in 1850 and 1864 with only the tower and other Perpendicular work left untouched.  It has a square 14th century tower with gargoyles and battlements and a large porch where the Roses of York and Lancaster show it as a Henry VII addition. 

There are also Tudor arch style windows in the north and south aisles. The Reverend Edward Lamber put some Gothic compartments under the porch in 1818. There are worn stone seats of free-stone either side of the porch. A rood loft can be seen between the aisle and the chancel which contains lattice work carving. The chancel itself holds memorials to the Hungerford family. A monument of John Townsend, D.D stands before the communion rails. He was expelled from the vicarage and his stall in Salisbury Cathedral by Puritans but was later restored in 1660. He built and endowed an almshouse at Calne for eight poor women in 1682.

The font is as old as the church and an organ is housed in the gallery above.  The nave is Anglo Saxon and has long and short quoins . The arcades of c. 1200 were re-modelled in 1850.  There are three bays, circular piers and double chamfered pointed arches.  The West window is in the Decorated style by Butterfield (1862-3). 

There are original bits of stained glass in the head of the north aisle, north east window.  The Chalice was made in 1662. Two twin bell openings can be found with six bells of various dates from 1685,1736,1826.  There was a Sanctus bell in the original cote which still stands at the east end of the nave, with traces of the ‘tow side’ window through which it was rung. There is a mosaic sanctuary floor of 1907.

William Lisle Bowles (24 September 1762 – 7 April 1850) was an English poet and critic and in 1804 became vicar of Bremhill.  In the same year he was collated by Bishop Douglas to a prebendal stall in Salisbury Cathedral.  In 1818 he was made chaplain to the Prince Regent, and in 1828 he was elected residentiary canon of Salisbury.   Much earlier, in 1789, he had published, in a very small quarto volume, Fourteen Sonnets, which were received with extraordinary favour, not only by the general public, but by such men as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wordsworth.

In October 2010 at a service of inauguration led by The Right Reverend Stephen Conway, the Bishop of Ramsbury, the parishes of Derry Hill, Bremhill and Foxham combined with that of Calne and Blacklands to form the Marden Vale Team Ministry.

Tytherton Lucas Chippenham
(01249) 656834
http://standrewschippenham.org.uk/st-nicholas-tytherton-lucas/

St Nicholas’ Church is a Chapel-of-Ease in the Parish of St Andrew, Chippenham, serving the small village of Tytherton Lucas.
We value the traditions of the Book of Common Prayer and Common Worship, using a mixture of traditional and contemporary language services.
The church is open for worship every Sunday.
 

Dumb Post Hill, Bremhill, SN11 9JZ
(01249) 813192
thedumb-post.com/

Re-opened in Nov 2019, the Dumb Post is a free house in an elevated position between Chippenham and Calne with a very large patio looking south over the Bowood Estate and beyond. Plenty of tables for customers to eat dishes from the traditi...

Foxham, SN15 4NQ
(01249) 740665
thefoxhaminn.co.uk

1/7/21 Re-opened under new ownership. Family-run countryside pub a bit off the beaten track, but with top quality food & ale. Also offering guestrooms with en suite bathrooms, WiFi and breakfast included.