Calne Free Church

Calne Free Church is a church of 1867, designed by W Stent of Warminster. It is constructed of squared, rusticated limestone with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a crested plain tile roof. The building has a rectangular plan, featuring a bell tower to the front left (northwest), a north aisle with a higher north transept extending to the aisle's line, and angled buttresses. The style is Gothic Revival, Middle Pointed.

The front gable includes a cinquefoil opening at the apex above a large, pointed-arched, casement-moulded, 4-light window with foliate capitals to shafts and geometrical tracery. A pointed-arched doorway, containing planked doors with decorative hinges, is flanked by low, offset buttresses. The intrados features soft red stone colonnettes with floral caps and plinths. The bell tower has a quatrefoiled parapet; the 2-light bell opening has floral stops to the hoodmould, quatrefoil and trefoil tracery, and scallop-edged slate louvres. Above a single-light pointed-arched window with similar tracery is a smaller door with a stilted arch.

The left return displays a 2-light window to the tower, and the projecting north aisle has three paired trefoil-headed windows to the clerestory. The gabled north transept features a 3-light pointed-arched window without a hoodmould. A tall, hipped square stair turret has circular windows and a timber porch to a pointed-arched door. At the rear, the semicircular apse has a curved hipped roof with a moulded eaves cornice, five pointed-arched windows, and a cill string. The right return is obscured by adjacent buildings.

The interior is largely unchanged, featuring a 10-bay scissor-braced planked roof over a clerestory with paired coloured leaded windows. The north aisle is separated by an arcade of four Transitional-style round piers supporting pointed arches—smaller to the west, providing access to the bell tower, and larger to the northeast transept. The arch to the apse is supported by colonnettes on high corbels. The apse contains small polychromatic tiles to the floor, and a dado approximately 2 meters high of brown glazed geometrical relief-pattern tiles, below five tall stained-glass windows with geometrical designs. These are flanked by panels of glazed tiles painted with mottos on scrolls around olive branches, in the style of William Morris. The west window shares a similar design. Original features, including a painted organ, pinewood pews, and the pulpit, remain, contributing to an unusually complete interior.

The church was built under the patronage of the Harris family, local wholesale butchers.