In the later 18th century, when the church was served by the Rector of Tockenham, a service was held at Lyneham early on Sunday afternoons. At this time there were 10 or 12 communicants in the parish. By 1783 the Vicar of Hilmarton was undertaking the customary afternoon service.

Early in the 19th century the parishioners informed the bishop that they had resolved to raise among themselves an annual stipend and provide a comfortable residence in order to secure the full-time services of a certain curate, who had served the church in the past.

It was presumably shortly after this that incumbents began to be regularly presented and paid from the endowment granted in 1813. On Census Sunday in 1851 it was reckoned that the average congregation at morning service over the year had been 95 and at afternoon service 105.

The distance at which many of the congregation lived from the parish church was remarked upon at this time and it was stated that many people found it more convenient to attend church in Tockenham.

In 1864 morning and evening prayers were said in Lyneham church and in addition evening prayers were said at a licensed schoolroom in Clack. Services were held at Lyneham on festivals and on Wednesdays and Fridays, but weekday attendance was reported to be poor. Holy Communion was administered at Christmas, Easter, Whitsun, on Trinity Sunday, and on the first Sunday in every month. There were about 37 communicants at this date.