United Reformed Church, Ramsbury

Although Presbyterian worship died out in the village in the mid 18th century there was a revival in the 1820s with the advent of Congregationalism. Meetings were held in cottages in Back Lane and Whitehouse Lane, while in 1829 the Home Missionary Society started an agency in the village. A house was licensed as a chapel in 1830 but the movement seemed to falter and the Society left. However the meeting continued and prospered so that, in 1839, they built they built the Ebenezar chapel in the High Street, at a cost of £105 for the land and £400 for the building. It opened on 30th July 1839 with the Rev. James Crickett, who had been in the village for some years, as its first minister. He remained until 1846 and his increasing congregation raised £570 to build a minister's house to the east of the chapel and a schoolroom to the south. The chapel was also enlarged to provide 100 free and 10 other seats, although it was still not really big enough. In 1851 there were 77 at morning service and 130 in the evening, with 89 at Sunday School.

Many of the members were middle class tradesmen and the chapel was very involved in the Provident Building and Investment Society (later well known as the Ramsbury Building Society), with ministers also serving as trustees of the Society. In the third quarter of the 19th century there was a very active minister, John Audley Harrison, who involved the chapel in many aspects of village life, was instrumental in forming the local school board and became managing director of the Building Society. The chapel flourished in the 1880s and new pews were added to the gallery and a vestry built. In 1894 the chapel was closed and repaired, while in 1897 the schoolroom was also repaired, and the chapel celebrated a successful diamond jubilee in 1899. They continued with a full time minister until well into the 20th century but after the First World War numbers declined and by 1946 there were only 23 regular worshippers. In 1952 they joined with Marlborough under one minister and later became Ramsbury United Reformed Church. Numbers continued to decline and the last services were held in 1982.