Horningsham Congregational Chapel

Horningham Congregational Chapel is a Congregational chapel, probably built around 1700, with interior restorations completed in 1754, 1816, and 1863. The structure is made of random rubble stone with brick dressings and features a half-hipped thatched roof. It has a gable end facing the road and is a single storey with an internal gallery and three windows. The entrance is located at the east gable end, featuring double 19th-century doors set in reveals, with a 20-pane segmental-headed sash window above and a Bath Sun fire insurance plaque over the door.

On the north side, there are three 2-light leaded casements and a blocked doorway, along with 2-light leaded casements in three eyebrow dormers that light the gallery. The south side has similar windows and two buttresses with offsets. The west end has two leaded cross windows with segmental-headed lights and a cast-iron plaque dated 1566.

Inside, the gallery wraps around three sides and is supported by turned wooden columns, featuring a panelled front and pews that likely date from around 1816. At the west end, there is an early 19th-century pentagonal panelled pulpit on a pedestal, with a reeded wooden panel and a broken pediment behind it. A circular clock is positioned over the east end of the gallery, and a row of wooden chapel hat pegs runs along the north side of the gallery. The pews in the main body of the chapel are from the late 19th century. A wooden tablet on the north wall lists ministers from 1791 to 1959. The arch-braced collar roof is plastered to create a segmental barrel vaulted ceiling, which was repaired in the 1960s.

The chapel is said to have been founded in 1566 for Scottish Presbyterian workmen who were employed in building Longleat House, although there is no documentary evidence to support this claim, and the current building is likely no older than around 1700.