Wylye Hall

Wylye Hall is an Anglican parish church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, now used as an artists' studio and dwelling. It was built in 1843 by T.H. Wyatt and D. Brandon. The church is constructed from coursed rubble stone with a fishscale tiled roof, although the west end has been partially replaced with concrete tiles. The plan incorporates a nave and chancel under a single roof, an apsidal east end, and a north-west tower with a spire above the entrance. The design is in a Neo-Norman style.

The round-arched west doorway features a roll-moulded arch on attached shafts with scalloped capitals, and a double planked door with ornamental hinges. The four-stage tower has angle buttresses, string courses, and slender attached shafts to the corners. The second stage over the door features a row of five round-arched lancets, followed by an inverted round-arched motif below a round-arched window with strapwork-style louvres and a billeted hoodmould. The bell stage has a dentilled cornice leading to a lead spire with winged beast gargoyles. The west end of the nave has a row of six lancets and a two-light round-arched window with attached shafts and a hoodmould. The south side has a round-arched doorway to the basement to the left, with zig-zag ornament, followed by five round-arched windows and pilaster buttresses to the right; the leftmost window has a dropped sill dating from the 1980s. A corbel table features carved faces. The east apse has three round-arched windows and a corbel table with carved heads. The north side has five round-arched windows, the rightmost having a dropped sill from the 1980s, pilaster buttresses, and a dentilled cornice. All windows are diamond-leaded with continuous roll moulding and hoodmoulds with carved terminals. The roof has coped verges with a cross finial to the east end.

The interior includes a vestibule at the west end with stairs to a west gallery. The five-bay nave and chancel have a one-bay gallery; the roof structure comprises pine collar and tie-beam trusses with queen struts and curved bracing, the tie-beam bearing painted biblical inscriptions. A large round-headed arch leads to the apse, featuring attached shafts with stylised leaf capitals. All original fittings were removed when the church was made redundant in 1973. A conversion to studios and a dwelling commenced in June 1985, which has altered a formerly tiered gallery into an enclosed room on one level and involves partitioning the nave for studios. Despite the change of use, the building retains special architectural interest. The church was originally financed by the Marchioness of Bath.