HORNINGSHAM, a parish in the hundred of HEYTESBURY,
county of WILTS, 4 miles (S. W.) from
Warminster, containing 1267 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £400 private benefaction,
£200 royal bounty, and £2400 parliamentary
grant, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury,
as Dean of the church of Heytesbury, and in the
patronage of the Prebendary of Horningsham in the
collegiate church of Heytesbury. The. church is dedicated
to St. John the Baptist. There is a place of worship
for Independents.