Church of All Saints

All Saints’ stands in Burbage, a Wiltshire village in the Vale of Pewsey. The church sits beside the High Street, once the main road from Marlborough to Andover. Its tower and porch date from the 16th century, while the body was rebuilt in 1854 by T. H. Wyatt and given a south aisle in 1876. The older fabric survives only in the tower and porch, yet the church remains Grade II* listed. It belongs now to the Savernake team ministry, linking it with neighbouring parishes. A small Methodist chapel at Eastcourt was built in 1822 and later replaced on the High Street before closing in 1996. The church’s history reaches back to the 12th century, with later rebuildings in the 14th and 15th. The Domesday survey of 1086 already recorded a church here, alongside fifteen households. The Seymour family once owned nearby Wulfhall, home to Jane Seymour, queen to Henry VIII. The Kennet and Avon Canal passes just north of the village, running through Bruce Tunnel a short distance away. The Great Western Railway’s line once ran close by, though its local station closed long ago. Inside, the rebuilt nave and aisle open into a light, plain space. The 16th-century porch shelters visitors before they step into the body of the church. The tower stands at the west end, its older stones contrasting with Wyatt’s 19th-century work. Outside, the High Street leads past the White Hart pub and the village hall. Eastcourt’s former school buildings, now a private house, sit a little to the south. Beyond the village, the North Wessex Downs stretch away, their streams feeding the Thames and the Avon.