Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Church.

Baptist Church

WRENN ID
cold-wicket-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Type
Church
Address
Baptist Church, Old Broughton Road, Melksham
OS grid reference
ST 902 642
Coordinates
51.37754, -2.14219
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Baptist Church, built in 1776 and restored in 1879, is constructed of rubblestone with a steeply pitched hipped roof covered in double Roman tiles. It has a square plan and is two storeys high with three windows. The original entrance door is located on the right side, featuring six-panelled double doors in a staff-moulded case with a pulvinated frieze and pediment supported by pilasters. On either side of the entrance are sash windows in beaded cases. The first floor has three round-headed sash windows with four panes each, also in beaded cases. The right and left sides of the building each have two ground floor sashes and two round-headed sashes with four panes on the first floor. Attached to the left side is a 19th-century entrance hall and Sunday school. A late 18th-century cartouche is found on the left side.

Inside, the church features galleries on three sides dating from 1795, which have elaborate cast iron balconies supported by cast iron columns with composite capitals. The wooden pews and pulpit were added during the 1879 restoration. The ceiling includes a plaster cornice and a central rosette adorned with acanthus leaves. There are marble wall tablets commemorating the Ledyard family from 1790 and Joshua Russell from 1840, both in classical style. The removal of Victorian pews was proposed in 1984.

Local climate

Baptist Church receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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