Leigh Delamere

Leigh Delamere is a small village in the civil parish of Grittleton in the English county of Wiltshire, about 4 miles (6 km) northwest of the town of Chippenham.

The rebuilding of the church (1846) and the construction of the Tudor-style row of almshouses (1848)[4] were at the expense of Joseph Neeld, who bought the Grittleton estate in 1828 after inheriting a large sum.

In both cases the architect was James Thomson, who also worked on the rectory (1846, also in Tudor style)[5] and Grittleton House (from 1832).

It has been designated as a Grade II* listed building[8] and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

[10] In the 1990s the benefices of Biddestone with Slaughterford, Castle Combe, Grittleton and Leigh Delamere, Nettleton and Burton with Littleton Drew, West Kington and Yatton Keynell were united[11] to form the Bybrook benefice; North Wraxall joined at a later date.