ceased in the 1920s and it was demolished in 1969. There were two Methodist chapels in Purton village. The Primitive Methodist chapel was built at Upper Square in 1856 and enlarged in 1893; the Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Play Close was built in 1882, replacing a smaller chapel from the 1870s. By 1969, after declines in numbers, the two congregations united. The Play Close chapel was renovated and reopened in 1973 as Purton Methodist Church, then the Upper Square chapel was sold for residential use. There was a Methodist church opposite Dairy Farm in 1832 at Purton Stoke. It was demolished in 1868 and rebuilt in Pond Lane. This building was sold in 2011 and converted for residential use. Notable buildings In addition to the Grade I listed parish church, the parish has four Grade II* listed houses, each built in limestone rubble. In Purton village, College Farmhouse is from the early 17th century. It has two storeys with attic, and a five-window front. The parlour has 17th-century panelling, and the wooden overmantel is carved with the Hyde arms and the date 1626; the house belonged to the father of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. Pound Farmhouse is an L-shaped 17th-century farmhouse, north of Widham on the road to Purton Stoke. Pond Farmhouse, south of Purton Stoke, is from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and is on an earlier moated site. Restrop House is from the late 16th century or early 17th. Its five-bay front has a two-storey porch, with the end bays also brought forward, and mullion-and-transom windows. Education Bradon Forest School is the area's secondary school. It was built in 1962 and caters for pupils from Purton parish, Lydiard Millicent, Cricklade, Ashton Keynes and West Swindon. The school is in the centre of the village, south of the High Street. On an adjacent site, St Mary's Church of England Primary School was opened in 2012, funded by the government's Primary Capital Programme and built on the site of the former junior school. Previously the school was split between two sites, with infants taught in the original Victorian building which opened in 1861 while juniors were in nearby buildings which opened in the early 1970s, along with the school's swimming pool. In the east of the parish, Ridgeway Farm CE Academy (a primary school) was built in 2016 to serve the newly developed housing area. Until 1978,