Friday 29th April 1960
In his serialisation Highways And Byways Of Warminster, first published in 1960, Wilfred Middlebrook wrote:
Chapel Street is in Warminster Common, or Newtown, branching to the right half way up Bell Hill, by the Bell And Crown inn, and dropping away to emerge in Brook Street by the Globe Inn. The chapel that names it opened in 1828, a building occupied for many years by the Salvation Army. An old resident of Chapel Street recalled, in 1922, an incident that took place eighty years previously, in 1842, when a flash of lightning struck a row of cottages and these, with the chapel and the old workhouse roof, were soon ablaze. There was no fire brigade, and the chapel was burnt out, but part of the workhouse was saved. She recalled that the folk of one cottage searched the ruins for a treasured teapot, and found it safe and sound in the oven.