179 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St MaryGrade I listedThe Tounson AlmshousesGrade II* listedTown HallGrade II listedZion Baptist Chapel and School Zion ChapelGrade II listedCastle HouseGrade II listed+4See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

c. 1900

c. 1900

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Of the 179 entries, 91 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 25 entries were listed in 1950, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 116 came in 1976, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

Everard of Calne

Isaac Nichols

Charles Atherton

John Clarke Foote

William Wayte

Henry Majendie

Tober Weston

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William Wayte1829–1898 · English chess master

Everard of Calne1050–1146 · Bishop of Norwich

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Tober Weston1888– · English footballer

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Isaac Nichols1770–1819 · Farmer, shipowner and public servant in New South Wales, Australia (1…

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Charles Atherton1805–1875 · British scientific engineer (1905–1875)

John Clarke Foote1822–1895 · Australian politician

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Henry Majendie1840–1923 · English cricketer (1840-1923)

Everyone born in Calne → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Per resident, Calne has more listed heritage than 82% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 179 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Mary. Only 103 of the 477 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On The Green alone there are 21 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Most entries on the list, 72%, are houses, terraces and villas. William Wayte (1829), Everard of Calne (1050) and Tober Weston (1888) are among the 7 people born here before 1900. Beyond that, it also has a scheduled monument; and 11% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.