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=== Other denominations === The Catholic church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception was opened in 1865 and extended in 1909.<ref name="vch-relig" /> St. Joseph's Catholic Primary School is adjacent to the church. Maryport Street [[Baptist]] Chapel, which was built in 1780 and extended in 1785, 1818, 1864 and 1922,<ref name="vch-relig" /> continues in use.<ref>{{cite web|title=Maryport Street Baptist Chapel|url=http://maryportstreetbaptist.org.uk/|access-date=2 June 2016}}</ref> Salem Chapel, New Park Street, was built in 1838 by a pastor and followers from Maryport Street, who had left because of divisions in the congregation.<ref name="vch-relig" /> They rejoined the parent body in 1895 and the building was used by the [[Open Brethren]], later by Devizes Christian Fellowship and (since the mid 1980s) Rock Community Church.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rock Community Church|url=http://www.rockcomchurch.org.uk/|access-date=2 June 2016}}</ref> The New Baptist Church was opened in 1852 during the pastorship of [[Charles Stanford (minister)|Charles Stanford]]. It replaced an adjacent [[English Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] chapel of 1791, which had been shared with disenchanted Baptist members from Maryport Street.<ref name="vch-relig" /> The church continues in use as Sheep Street Baptist Church.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sheep Street Baptist Church|url=http://sheepstreet.org.uk/|access-date=2 June 2016}}</ref> St. Andrew's Church, Long Street, was built as a [[Methodist Church of Great Britain|Methodist]] chapel in 1898, replacing an earlier chapel at New Park Street.<ref name="vch-relig" /> It is now a combined Methodist and [[United Reformed Church]].<ref>{{cite web|title=St Andrew's Church|url=http://www.standrewsdevizes.org.uk/|access-date=2 June 2016}}</ref> The old Methodist Chapel in New Park Street was then used by the Salvation Army for many years until it was demolished. The Salvation Army then raised funds to build a hall on Station Road which opened in 1971; the Scout Hut on Southbroom Road was a temporary home in the late 1960s after the New Park Street hall was condemned. The Corps was closed in the 2010s, membership having dwindled from a peak in the 1970s, ending around one hundred years of association with Devizes.<ref>personal recollections of a fourth generation family member associated with the Corps</ref> A chapel was built at Northgate Street in 1776, at first for [[Calvinistic Methodists|Calvinist Methodist]] worship, soon becoming [[Congregational Church in England|Congregationalists]]. The building was enlarged in 1790 and extended in Early English style in the mid-19th century, becoming known as St Mary's Congregational Church;<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1262633|desc=St Mary's Congregational Church|access-date=2 June 2016|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> from 1842 Devizes was the head of the Wiltshire and East Somerset Congregational Union.<ref name="vch-relig" /> The congregation joined St. Andrew's around 1987 and the building is now in residential use.<ref>{{cite web|website=Wiltshire Community History|title=Congregational Chapel, Devizes|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Church/Details/463|publisher=Wiltshire Council|access-date=2 June 2016}}</ref> [[Quaker]]s have a meeting room at Sussex Wharf, next to the canal.<ref>{{cite web|title=Devizes Local Quaker Meeting|url=http://www.devizesquakers.org.uk/|access-date=2 June 2016}}</ref>
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