Bruce Watkin, in 1985, wrote ~
St. Denys Church, Warminster
St. Denys Church or “The Minster”, a large parish church with cruciform plan and squat crossing tower, is mainly of the 14th century but was so renewed in 1887-89 as to have lost most of its character.
The architect was Arthur Blomfield, engaged at the expense of Sir James Philipps, rector 1859-97. Restoration was generally in a 15th-century style based on the south or Mauduit chapel and involved removing an 18th century clerestorey, galleries and pews, re-using a Norman arch in a north transept window, replacing a 14th-century angel over the south door and installing a gilt and alabaster reredos. The organ of 1792, decorated with turret and urns and built by G.P. England, has survived, as have 17th century plate and wall tablets from the same century.
Outside, in a once circular churchyard, are a giant yew, pitched paths and table tombs.
Philipps’s reforms led to a celebrated law case when he tried to remove the right of the Halliday family (then dissenters) to a permanent pew.