Melksham United Church

Melksham United Church is a Methodist Chapel, now a United Reform Church, built in 1872 by the architectural firm Wilson, Willcox and Wilson of Bath. The building features rock-faced stone and a Welsh slate roof. It has an impressive two-storey front with three windows. A blind portico is supported by four giant Corinthian columns on large pedestals, topped with a modillioned pediment and cornice that includes an oculus. The entrance consists of a pair of six-panelled doors framed by moulded architraves, bay-leaf pulvinated friezes, and segmental pediments with decorated carved tympanums. On either side of the doors are pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The three windows on the first floor are round-arched sashes set within shouldered architraves. The building is finished with a modillioned cornice, a balustraded parapet, and stone urn finials at the corners. The right and left returns each have four tall round-arched sashes in chamfered cases, separated by pilasters.

Inside, the church is plain, featuring a gallery over the vestibule at the west end. The east end contains plain preaching boxes and a railed enclosure in front of a round arch with a hood mould and carved foliage terminals that houses the organ. At the rear, there is an attached church room that is of no special interest. The church was founded as The Methodist Chapel.