The Big Picture
The Reformation movement in England,which brought a change to the beliefs and practices of the christian faith, and the domination of the state by The Holy Roman Catholic Empire, probably dates from the days of John Wycliffe 1328-1384. On the continent his writings influenced Jan Hus 1369-1415, the Bohemian activist whose teachings founded the Moravian Church, and Martin Luther 1483-1546 in Germany.
In France they were followed by John Calvin 1509-1564 and others. King Henry VIII in England replaced the Vaticans power over the English church in the 1530s.

During the 1640s a convention of leading theologians (Westminster Assembly of Divines) met in the Jerusalem Chamber of the Westminster Parliament to determine the acceptable creed and governance of the Church of England (Westminster Confession). It is of interest to note that the Rev. Richard Vines was a prominent member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines.

Brinkworth Parish
The parish church at Brinkworth, where many Vines were buried, is St Michael and All Angels, built about 800 years ago. The birth burial and marriage register is continuous from 1653, after disruption to life throughout England by the civil war and execution of the king. 
Most of the conformist Vines from Grittenham were baptised and married here and buried in the churchyard. Burials occurred in the churchyard of St Michaels until the end of the 1800s, when a new cemetery nearby was opened. An honour board within the church gives the name of four Vines who were killed in action during the Great War 1914-'18.
The graves were usually marked with vertical headstones inscribed with name and date and perhaps a few words of biblical or other text in remembrance. Much of these inscriptions is now obscured by long periods of growth of lichens growing on the stone. In addition the stone surface tends to weather or deteriorate from chemical reaction with rainwater and organic pollutants, as well as the wetting/drying and frost freeze/thaw cycles of the weather. It is regrettable that the permanent record in stone of past lives is slowly being lost. 
The headstones of Benjamin and Edward Vines from the 1700s are still standing here, though the inscriptions are almost obliterated by lichens.

Tytherton Moravian Church
In 1768 Charles Vines, born 1722, took over the Vines Farm at Grittenham on death of his mother, his father Benjamin having died in 1763. The following year Charles and his wife Mary joined the Moravian Church at East Tytherton in the Bremhill Parish. After that all subsequent baptisms, marriages and burials in this family took place at the East Tytherton Church. (Vines House at Grittenham was also used as a meeting place.)
This was one of the principal Moravian or Bohemian Brethren settlements in England, with a church and school.

This region east of Chippenham is a scenic and historic area. See Tytherton for pictures of the church and school and the famous Maud Heath causeway built in 1474 for access to Chippenham along the flood-prone plain of the Avon River.
With the Presbyterian, Methodist, Quakers and other independant denominations the Moravian Church is Non-conformist. See Moravian Church History. 
The Moravian burial ground at Tytherton is behind the church and some distance from it.
The gravemarkers are simple flat stones set face-up on the ground with just name, age and date.This stone is the memorial for Rebecca Vines who was the wife of Jacob, farmerof Charlcutt, Jacob who is buried in the Bremhill churchyard, was son of Daniel and Elizabeth and grandson of Palmer Vines.
In a note from another researcher:
Jacob Vines bought a house in Tytherton when he retired from farming at Charlcutt.  I am sure of this because in his Will he mentions his "freehold house and land at Tytherton".  I don't think he had anything to do with the Moravians - only Rebecca and one of their two daughters joined them. Rebecca's application was laid before the Committee on 22 Feb 1841.  Jacob is buried in Bremhill churchyard and Rebecca in the burial ground at Tytherton.  Because of their religious beliefs it would appear that they were laid to rest, after 43 years together, in separate graves several miles apart.  Sad .....

It is of interest that, in the 1851 census, mention was made of Ann Vines being an annuitant at the Moravian establishment Sisters House. She was the niece, born 1789 at Potterne, of Joshua Vines of Reading who was bequeathed 5 pounds per year for life in his 1845 will. 

Tony Woodward states: 
In 1851 Ann Vines was at schedule 65b at Tytherton.  Schedule 65a was occupied by Sarah A. Johnson, "Superintendent of Moravian Establishment",
along with Elizabeth Harman (61, "Annuitant"), and Elizabeth Courtney (19,
"Satin stich worker").  Their relationship to Sarah Johnson is described as
"Inmate".  The 1841 census doesn't identify the Moravian Sisters House
specifically, but Mary Hutton at Tytherton is listed as "Matron", in a house
containing seven other females with ages from 70 down to 10.  It looks as
though the Sisters House was not just for retirement, but was perhaps a
private charitable institution for girls and women of all ages.  I would
like to hear more about it too.

In 1861 Ann Vines is described as a boarder at schedule 69, with Sarah
Johnson as Head, but just the two of them in the household.  Jacob and
Rebecca Vines were listed on the next page at schedule 75, not the same
house at all.

East Tytherton Moravian Church burials 1840-1916:
Ann VINES aged 80, place of abode East Tytherton.  Died 8 Feb 1870, buried
16 Feb 1870.

From ‘The Parochial History of Bremhill’ by the Reverend William Bowles

This was written c1827-28 as Bowles walks us through the different hamlets of Bremhill.

From Chapter VII – Tytherton – Moravian Establishment.

   But it is time to leave these reflections, and we shall now proceed below the hill, by the side of the canal, from the hamlet of Stanley to that of Tytherton, distinguished by a Moravian settlement, an interesting Christian community which has, in many respects, the advantages of a religious establishment; and in extensive parishes like this, where there is no officious intrusion, such an establishment might be considered as subsidiary to the church of England.
   What the convent was, in its humble and nascent state, this society exhibits.   The minister is a kind of “pater familiae”.   Industry, peace, and the spirit of religion are predominant.   The industrious and tranquil members of this community neither differ, nor profess to differ, as to “credenda” from the church of England: they speak of her with the greatest respect, and this feeling is always repaid by reciprocal regard on the part of our clergy, throughout the kingdom.   To Mr. Britton’s account of the United Brethren in, “The Beauties of Wiltshire”, I must refer to further particulars respecting this society, established in my own parish, as I can vouch for its accuracy.
   Their places of worship are never without that instrument, the solemn diapasons of which are stigmatised by John Knox as “ungodly and unprofitable piping!”   The part of the parish, which the united brethren inhabit, has a peculiar air of comfort.   The buildings consist of a chapel, with a neat connected residence for the minister, and another connected building appropriated to a young ladies’ boarding school.
   These are educated without regard to particular creeds, but all morally and religiously.   The Moravian brethren have been established in this parish upwards of a hundred years; an act of Parliament having passed in their favour, chiefly by the exertions of archbishop Wake, ancestor of the wife of the present incumbent.
   Before the buildings is a neat iron-fenced green, and at a small distance a house for females employed in fine needlework.   I conclude these observations with a sigh of affectionate remembrance to the late Lewis West, the minister, whose large family is now separated, with whom the writer lived in intimacy for the space of seventeen years.
   (As the whole of the West’s family were proficient in music, a monthly concert was established at the parsonage.)
   As I was present at Lewis West’s funeral, an account of the peculiar ceremonies of this rite among the brethren may not be unacceptable.
   The garden-green before the chapel is surrounded by those invited, the neighbours of their own fraternity, old and young, and the young ladies of the school all similarly dressed in white, with a simple black ribbon.   As soon as the coffin is brought from the house, the officiating minister reads the opening verses of our funeral service, (“I heard a voice from Heaven”, finely set for four voices, by C.B. Wollaston, was performed, accompanied on the organ.), after which he gives out the first stanza of a hymn –
“Our aged friend is gone to rest”.
The young women sing this in unison, and the effect is very impressive.   The coffin is then borne into the chapel; the clergy of the established church invited go the next in order, then the Moravian ministers, and afterwards the congregation.   A sermon is preached, and, in the same order as before, the coffin is borne to the burial ground.   The whole of the area is surrounded on one side by the women of the establishment, and the young females; on the other side by the minister, friends and fraternity   The whole join in an affecting hymn, after which the coffin is deposited in the earth, and a few prayers are read.
   At the afternoon service in the chapel, there are prayers and an appropriate anthem.   The minister then gives a narrative of the life of the departed brother, and the congregation, rich and poor, concludes the whole by taking bread together, and what is difficult to mention with appropriate seriousness, drinking tea!
      The place devoted to receive the last remains of those who die among the congregation, is a square enclosure, to which a walk leads from the sisters’ house and the minister’s; a few firs and shrubs surround it.   The sisters are buried by themselves, and another portion of the consecrated ground is allotted to the brethren.   A small square stone is laid on the ground, the top somewhat elevated; no inscription appears except H.H.S.S for single sister; or M.H.M.S married sister “departed”; or on the brothers’ side, W.G.M.B or S.B – married or single brother “departed”.
   No distinction is made between rich or poor, minister or brother.

I also owe thanks to EW who sent me from England without cost or comment a photo copy of several pages from a book which contained a photo of the Moravian establishment at East Tytherton. It shows an angled view of the joined brick buildings comprising the chapel with manse and school on either side and a separate house for "single sisters". Accompanying text states that it is a short stroll from the site of Stanley Abbey.

"One of the most important influences on the young John Wesley was his contact in 1735, on a voyage to America, with members of the Moravian Church, a movement which had begun as a kind of medieval Methodism in Bohemia during the fifteenth century. They lived communally and their quiet spirituality and dogged evangelism had a profound effect on the pioneers of the Methodist revival. One of these, John Cennick, who had broken with Wesley on theological matters by 1740, began to preach in north-west Wiltshire with great success, but in 1741 moved on to Swindon, where a mob almost lynched him. Undeterred he established a community along Moravian lines at East Tytherton, near Chippenham, in 1742, and when he left Wiltshire three years later entrusted it to the Moravian church."
May 04

Sutton Benger
This is a small village on the southern side and close to the M4 motorway, north of Chippenham. Near the entrance to the parish church is the grave headstone of Elizabeth Vines, wife of Peter1724, who was buried here in 1762. Internally the church is noted for its carved "green man" and sculpture ornaments.

Tockenham

St Giles Church, Tockenham

See also the page on St Martins Church of Bremhill which is also important to Vines 
family history.