Photo of Salisbury Cathedral, a cathedral in Wiltshire, south west England.

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Churches in WiltshireWiltshire, England

10 churches in the Albion Guide across Wiltshire — see the full churches directory, or everything to explore in Wiltshire.

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Salisbury Cathedral

Cathedral near Salisbury

Early English Gothic cathedral raised in 38 years from 1220, under England's tallest spire, with an original Magna Carta and Britain's largest close.

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Malmesbury Abbey

Monastery · Abbey near Malmesbury

Norman abbey with a dramatic ruined nave.

St Cyriac's Church, Lacock

Church near Lacock

Handsome Perpendicular wool church in National Trust Lacock, with a fine Renaissance tomb chapel for the Sharington family.

St John the Baptist, Inglesham

Church near Inglesham

Small unrestored medieval church by the upper Thames, saved by William Morris, with box pews and faded wall paintings, loved by Thames Path walkers.

St Mary the Virgin, Steeple Ashton

Church near Steeple Ashton

A great Perpendicular Gothic church near Trowbridge, richly carved with grotesques and lierne vaulting, among the finest parish churches in the country.

St Mary's Church, Old Dilton

Church near Dilton Marsh

Little-altered 14th-century church near Westbury with box pews, a three-decker pulpit and a tiny stone spire, kept by the Churches Conservation Trust.

St Andrew's Church, Castle Combe

Church near Castle Combe

Village church whose tower holds the faceless Castle Combe clock, believed one of the oldest working medieval clocks in England.

St Giles' Church, Imber

Church near Imber

Thirteenth-century church of the ghost village of Imber on the Army's Salisbury Plain ranges, with medieval wall paintings and only rare open days.

St Laurence's Church, Bradford-on-Avon

Church near Bradford-on-Avon

One of the most complete Saxon churches in England, a tall narrow chapel rediscovered in the 19th century and called the best church in Wiltshire by Betjeman.

St Mary's Church, Purton

Church near Purton

Unusual church with both a west tower and a central spire, one of only two like it in England, above the village north-west of Swindon.