Category: Community (Warminster)

Topics about organisations and activities in Warminster.

Regular Afternoon Sex In A Vehicle In A Lane At Norton Bavant

From the Local Crime Update, 19th To 24th December 2022, Warminster Community Area:

Occurrence 54220134342

Reported time 23/12/2022 15:46

Occurrence between 23/12/2022 15:00 23/12/2022 15:00

NORTON BAVANT – Unknown couple are meeting in a lane in the village for regular afternoon sex in the male’s vehicle.  The vehicle has tinted windows but it is obvious from outside what is going on as the vehicle rocks.  Is embarrassing for local parents with children.

Warminster Town Council Will Make A Grant For Urgent Repairs To The Chapel Of St. Lawrence

Tuesday 29th November 2022

£24,600 From Community Infrastructure Levy Will Help Pay For Repairs To A Window, A Floor And A Panelled Ceiling At A Public-Owned Historic Building In Warminster

Warminster Town Council has resolved to give a grant to St Lawrence Chapel to pay for urgent repairs to the main stain glass east window, the clock room floor and the wooden panelled ceiling. The money will come from the Community Infrastructure Levy, funds paid by developers to maintain and improve facilities in Warminster. A grant of £24,600 has been awarded, with a further small sum held as a contingency in case the repairs prove more expensive than budgeted.

St. Lawrence Chapel is an old, historic building. Parts of it date back to the 13th Century. It has been owned by the town of Warminster since 1575 and is held in trust by 12 Feoffees (Trustees). The Bells date to 1657 and the clock to 1764. Repairs are essential to protect the building for current use. Situated in the centre of Warminster, the chapel provides a visually stunning place for quiet reflection and a venue for a wide range of religious, charitable, and civic events. Amongst these are:

– As a venue for baptisms, weddings, funerals, and non-religious celebrant services.

– The Mayors Civic service.

– The Remembrance Day Service and Warminster’s Field of Remembrance.

– Warminster’s Christmas lights celebrations, Christmas tree and Lions nativity crib.

– A wide range of charity organisations use the chapel and the front lawn for charity sales and coffee mornings.

– As a venue for choir concerts, instrument recitals, other music events, talks and art displays.

– The chapel was heavily involved with the town’s efforts to celebrate the life of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 500+ people came into the chapel to sign the official books of condolence.

The chapel strives to be accessible to all and has disabled access, toilets, kitchen facilities and a loop sound system.

Councillor Chris Robbins, Mayor of Warminster said, “Councillors were united in supporting this request for funding. Warminster without the Chapel of St. Lawrence would be unthinkable.”

Report On Sustainable Warminster’s Rescue Of Amphibians On Smallbrook Road, February To October 2022

November 2022

Harriet James, of Sustainable Warminster’s Smallbrook Toad Patrol, has written the following report:

Since February [2022] Warminster’s Toad Patrollers have been recording and rescuing amphibians on Smallbrook Road.

Toads, frogs and newts are now safely hibernating on higher ground, so the patrollers have hung up their torches for the year.  They have made 153 volunteer trips totalling 76 hours out on the road at night. 149 female toads, 1655 male toads, 53 frogs and 253 newts were recorded between February and October.  Of these, 18% had been killed by cars.

This year the patrollers wore new printed hiviz jackets and put out reflective “Caution Toads Crossing’ signs for motorists during patrols. These were bought with a grant from the Wiltshire Wildlife Community Energy Fund.   One of the patrollers’ fixed triangular toad warning signs was stolen and other vandalised, but these have been replaced or repaired.The patrollers are hopeful that the Town Council’s resolution to set up meeting with Wiltshire Council Highways will bear fruit. In April they asked the Council to discuss closing the road to vehicular traffic next Spring to turn it into a safer route for migrating toads as well as walkers, cyclists and horse riders.

Warminster Town Council To Join The Rural Market Towns Group

Monday 3rd October 2022

At a meeting of the Town Development Committee of Warminster Town Council, held at Warminster Civic Centre, on Monday 3rd October 2022, Councillors Allensby, Davis, Fraser, Fryer, Macfarlane and Syme (and advisor Len Turner) agreed that the Town Council should join the Rural Market Towns Group. The minutes record that:

TD/22/38 The Rural Market Towns Group.
The town council has been asked to join the Rural Market Towns Group. The subscription would be £130 per year. The Rural Market Towns Group is a lobby group that aims to increase opportunities for funding, influence policy decisions and shine a light on the impact that our Rural Market Towns have on our country’s economic prosperity and quality of life, combining the voices of Rural Market Towns across England and play that voice into Central Government. Members resolved to join the Rural Market Towns Group.

The Origins Of Warminster Town Council’s Coat Of Arms

Wednesday 15th June 2022

The Mayor of Warminster, Councillor Chris Robbins finds that often when he is talking to people when he is wearing his chain of office, people are curious to know the origins of Warminster’s coat of arms.

Chris explains: “Warminster Urban District Council was created under the Local Government Act of 1894, and a year later adopted the device or ‘coat of arms’ of the Mauduit family of an armed knight on horseback for use on its seal.”

“This coat of arms was chosen because in the 12th century Henry II had granted the Manor of Warminster to Robert Mauduit (or Mordaunt), a royal chamberlain and a constable of Salisbury Castle. The device was passed down through Robert Mauduit’s descendants until in 1577 it was sold on and it eventually ended up with the Marquess of Bath.”

“In 1948, when a wooden replica of the coat of arms was made for display in the Council chamber, it was discovered that they had not received a grant of Letters Patent from the College of Arms in London, which meant the device was not valid.”

“In addition to being used without a grant, it was also found that the device was not that of the Mauduit family after all but was based on that of the Irish Fitzgerald family, from Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare.”

“Warminster Urban District Council approached the College of Arms with a request that Warminster be granted legal use of the coat of arms that had been on its seal since 1895. On 29th November 1948 the use of the coat of arms by Warminster Urban District Council and its successors was duly granted.”

“In 1974 Warminster became a Town Parish within West Wiltshire District Council, and a further endorsement from the College of Arms transferred the arms accordingly, where they remain in use to this day.”

“Community” Paper My Arse!

Tuesday 14th June 2022

From The WAG House, Warminster Action Group, Facebook page:

Sent in by Jette

I have just had a major anxiety attack brought on by Warminster journal! They have made any publicity with them impossible throughout my Brave the Shave campaign to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support & entirely avoided doing any work themselves. They have misled and lied to me. I would like to give you the whole story. I am flabbergasted and now a tearful wreck.

As a warning to locals, if you are looking for any local publicity for a charitable cause and can’t write it all up yourself, because you are not a reporter, don’t bother with them. Without paying out a load of money, they won’t do anything before the event to raise awareness. They won’t attend, not even to take photos (& if they say they will they just don’t turn up & deny saying they would later) They won’t write the article and then they will charge you if you put a link to where people can donate! They put obstacles at every step, even when you try to give them the event photos YOU HAVE ON THEIR BEHALF, as requested ! And the ‘excuses’ were risible. “Community” paper my arse !

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