Parish church The
Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin is
Grade I listed. Originating in the 12th or 13th century, with many
Early English features surviving, it was altered in the 14th and 15th centuries and restored in the 19th.
Pevsner writes that it has "uncommon size and nobility", through being part of a bishop's estate.
Domesday Book recorded a priest but did not mention a church. and one of the chancel's west lancet windows which is from the late 12th century or early 13th. The three-bay chancel, mostly in rubble stone, is from the mid-13th century. Furnishings include a
carrel desk (English Heritage) A 15th-century chest tomb in the churchyard is Grade II* listed. In 1091,
Bishop Osmond gave Cannings church and its considerable income to the new cathedral at Salisbury. The rectory manor, known as Cannings Canonicorum, remained in the ownership of the cathedral's dean and chapter (but generally leased out) until they sold it at the beginning of the 19th century. The parish remained a
peculiar until such jurisdictions were abolished in the 19th century.
Others The church of St James on the edge of Devizes (15th-century tower, rest rebuilt 1831–2) The hamlet of
Chittoe, some to the north-west near Bromham, was a detached part of Bishops Cannings parish until a church was built there in 1845. A
Wesleyan Methodist chapel was opened at Horton in 1832 and closed in the second half of the 20th century. At Coate, a
Brethren chapel was built in 1848 and closed in 1973. == Amenities ==