The school contains a curious 19^th century Gothic octagonal building.

PARISH CHURCH
The parish church, at the southern end of Church Lane, is dedicated to St John the Baptist. The structure itself dates from Norman times with additions of the 13^th and 15^th centuries. It has a rare Georgian interior, crammed with oaken box pews, pulpit, reading desk and gallery, which has remained unspoilt since the refurbishment of 1816;

You walk in to the church of a Jane Austen novel, into a forest of magnificent oak joinery . . .

... Sir John Betjeman (an old Marlburnian) in a 1948 broadcast

Visitors come to the church from all over Britain and abroad, especially from the United States of America, some claiming ancestry back to the parish.

ROMAN
There was a Roman town at Werg only some four hundred metres to the north of the parish church which is well documented as Cunetio.

It is possible that the much defaced Roman carving of the Roman Goddess Fortuna which is dated about 300AD and was found at the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin in nearby Marlborough during the restoration works of 1874 may have found its way there from Cunetio.

see: Roman Wiltshire

THE DOMESDAY SURVEY
The Domesday Book of 1086 records that the Church held Mildenhalle and that Edward held it from the Church. Domesday further describes the meadows, pastures and woodlands pertaining to the village and records that there were fifteen villagers and five small-holders.
  see also: Domesday record of the Parish Church

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