Dilton Marsh, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Dilton-Marsh, an ecclesiastical district in Westbury parish, Wilts, adjacent to the boundary with Somerset, 2¼ miles WSW of Westbury station on the G.W.R. It was constituted in 1844, is partly identical with Dilton chapelry, and has a post office under Westbury; money order and telegraph office, Westbury Leigh. Population, 1218. The living is a vicarage, with Chapmanslade annexed, in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is recent and good. There are several fine stained glass windows by Clayton, &c., and a beautiful reredos. There is also a chapel at Chapmanslade.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1844.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Dilton Marsh:
| Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1844-1880 | 1845-1881 |
Churches
Church of England
Holy Trinity (parish church)
Holy Trinity church, built in the year 1844, is a large and very fine cruciform structure, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, transepts, north porch and an embattled central tower containing a clock and one bell: there is a stained window, put in by the officers of the 7th Hussars, in 1887, as a memorial to Major Phipps, who died at Cairo: the east window was erected in 1885 to Charles Paul Phipps esq. and his wife: there are also memorial windows to the Right Rev. Walter Kerr Hamilton D.D. Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1864), to the Rev. Charles Frederick Hyde, a former vicar (d. 1879), Robert Clare and Sarah Christ (1903) and to Miss Sarah Bailey, a former schoolmistress: the church affords 600 sittings.
Baptist
Baptist Chapel
The Baptist chapel, built in 1810, had 375 sittings.
Baptist Chapel
The Baptist Chapel, rebuilt in 1884, has 80 sittings.
Maps
Online maps of Dilton Marsh are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online: