Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, West Lavington

David Saunders (The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain) was born in Littleton Pannell in 1717 and was greatly influenced by John Wesley. A farm worker, he spent his life preaching and teaching in West Lavington and the surrounding parishes. His followers first met in his cottage and later at Cornbury Mill. He died in 1796 and his life and work are commemorated by Hannah Moore in 'The Pious Shepherd of Salisbury Plain'. Much later, in 1900, the brothers H.T. and T. Holloway, who ran a local building company, gave and furnished a chapel in Littleton Pannell. The foundation stone was laid on Easter Monday, 16th April 1900. There was a well attended tea party after the ceremony, the tea urn was borrowed from the Baptist chapel and 150 lbs of cake eaten. In the first part of the 20th century there was a large congregation but this decreased and after the late 1950s or early 1960s services were held in the school room. The chapel closed in the late 1960s and was bought by the Catholic church in 1967.