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Overview of the district and its places of worship
[edit]Support for the Roman Catholic faith in the post-Reformation era in this part of Hampshire was provided by the Weld family of the Lulworth Estate in Dorset. From 1800 until the 1850s Mass was celebrated at Pylewell House, owned by a member of the family; then in 1858 Joseph Weld bought a site for a permanent church in Lymington. The land was behind an existing 18th-century house which was converted into the presbytery. The Church of Our Lady of Mercy and St Joseph, which opened in May 1859, was designed by Joseph Hansom in a plain Gothic Revival style.[1][2] Fordingbridge's Catholic church, originally dedicated to Our Lady of Seven Dolours,[3] dates from 1873 and occupies premises built as a novitiate for members of the Servite Order who lived here until 1907. It was registered for public worship in 1875. The church and its attached presbytery are set in a large burial ground.[4] The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Edward the Confessor was built at Lyndhurst in 1896 to serve Catholics in that village and the surrounding area, who for the preceding 10 years had been able to use a chapel at Wellands Hall. The church was paid for by a Frenchman in memory of his late wife, who had lived in Lyndhurst. The small Decorated Gothic Revival church was designed by Arthur Blomfield, who mostly worked on Anglican churches.[1][5] A permanent church was built in Totton in 1925 to a "quite striking" design by W.C. Mangan. It was extended in the late 1950s, and the interior was refitted in the 1960s and 1970s.[6] Two years later he designed Our Lady of Lourdes Church in New Milton, which along with neighbouring Barton-on-Sea had grown rapidly in the early 20th century. For the previous three years the priest from Lymington had celebrated Mass in houses in New Milton.[7] At Ringwood, Mass was celebrated at the house of a Catholic family until a church was built in 1937–39 to the design of John Sterrett and was completed after World War II. Originally a stark Modernist/functionalist building of dark brick,[8] the exterior was transformed in 2012 to the design of Philip Proctor, giving it a more ornate white façade in a Classical/Mediterranean style.[9] Also built at this time was St Anne's Church in Brockenhurst, to the design of Alan Stewart; it is a "simple and nicely detailed" example of Romanesque Revival architecture. The parish was formed in 1939 but the first priest died soon afterwards: the first Mass in the church was his funeral.[10] At Milford-on-Sea, the chapel at Maryland House, a home for priests run by a group of Franciscan sisters, was made available for public worship between 1938 and its closure in 1967. At this point the village institute, built in 1888, was converted into a Catholic church dedicated to St Francis of Assisi.[11] In the early 20th century Mass began to be celebrated in hired premises in Hythe by a curate from St Joseph's Church, Southampton. Each Sunday he travelled across Southampton Water on a motorboat to reach Hythe.[12] Further south, at Holbury, a timber church was built in 1939 and a parish was formed. In 1958, land was built for a permanent church in Hythe, which by this time was part of the parish of Totton. It became part of Holbury parish in 1962, and the present St Michael's Church was built three years later. Holbury then became a separate parish again and a new church, St Bernard's, was built in 1971.[12]
Religious affiliation
[edit]Administration
[edit]Anglican churches
[edit]Most of the district's Anglican churches are part of the Anglican Diocese of Winchester, which is based at Winchester Cathedral.[13] The remainder are in the Diocese of Salisbury, whose seat is Salisbury Cathedral.[14] Those in the Diocese of Winchester are split across two deaneries. The churches at Ashley, Bashley, Bisterne, Bransgore, Breamore, Burley, Ellingham, Fordingbridge, Godshill, Hale, Harbridge, Hinton, Hyde, New Milton, Poulner, Ringwood, Sandleheath (joint Anglican and Methodist), Sopley, Thorney Hill and Woodgreen are administered by the Christchurch Deanery.[15] Lyndhurst Deanery is responsible for the churches at Beaulieu, Boldre, the two (St Nicholas and St Saviour) at Brockenhurst, Buckler's Hard, Buttsash, Calmore, Colbury, Copythorne, Dibden, Dibden Purlieu, East Boldre, Eling, Emery Down, Everton, Exbury, Fawley, Holbury, Hordle, Hythe, Langley, Lymington, Lyndhurst, Marchwood, Milford-on-Sea, Minstead, Netley Marsh, Pennington, Pilley, South Baddesley, Sway, Tiptoe, Totton and Woodside.[16] In the Diocese of Salisbury, Chalke Deanery administers the churches at Damerham, Martin, Rockbourne and Whitsbury;[17] and the church at Bramshaw is part of Alderbury Deanery.[18]
Roman Catholic churches
[edit]Other denominations
[edit]Listed status
[edit]Grade | Criteria[19] |
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Grade I | Buildings of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important. |
Grade II* | Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. |
Grade II | Buildings of national importance and special interest. |
Current places of worship
[edit]Former places of worship
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Kelly 1907, p. 263.
- ^ "Lymington – Our Lady of Mercy and St Joseph". Catholic Trust for England and Wales and English Heritage. 2011. Archived from the original on 19 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ Kelly 1907, p. 180.
- ^ "Fordingbridge – SS Mary and Philip". Catholic Trust for England and Wales and English Heritage. 2011. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "Lyndhurst – Our Lady of the Assumption and St Edward the Confessor". Catholic Trust for England and Wales and English Heritage. 2011. Archived from the original on 19 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "Totton – St Theresa". Catholic Trust for England and Wales and English Heritage. 2011. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "New Milton – Our Lady of Lourdes". Catholic Trust for England and Wales and English Heritage. 2011. Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "Ringwood – Sacred Heart and St Therese of Lisieux". Catholic Trust for England and Wales and English Heritage. 2011. Archived from the original on 19 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ Cite CS Newsletter when published
- ^ "Brockenhurst – St Anne". Catholic Trust for England and Wales and English Heritage. 2011. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "Milford – St Francis of Assisi". Catholic Trust for England and Wales and English Heritage. 2011. Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ a b Dwyer 1981, p. 110.
- ^ "Cathedral, Unknown or Extra-Parochial". Anglican Diocese of Winchester. 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Salisbury Cathedral". Anglican Diocese of Salisbury. 2023. Archived from the original on 20 September 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ^ "Christchurch". Anglican Diocese of Winchester. 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ^ "Lyndhurst". Anglican Diocese of Winchester. 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
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- ^ "Listed Buildings". Historic England. 2018. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- ^ Registered in accordance with the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (Number in Worship Register: 11484; Name: Baptist Chapel; Address: New Street, Lymington; Denomination: Baptists. (Archived version of list from April 2010; subsequent updates)
- ^ Historic England. "Baptist Church, New Street, Lymington and Pennington, New Forest, Hampshire (Grade II) (1031546)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ Registered in accordance with the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (Number in Worship Register: 44473; Name: New Milton Baptist Church; Address: Old Milton Road, New Milton, Hampshire; Denomination: Baptists. (Archived version of list from April 2010; subsequent updates)
- ^ Registered in accordance with the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (Number in Worship Register: 17338; Name: Trinity Church; Address: Ringwood; Denomination: United Reformed Church. (Archived version of list from April 2010; subsequent updates)
- ^ Historic England. "Trinity Congregational Church, Christchurch Road, Ringwood, New Forest, Hampshire (Grade II) (1094986)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ Registered in accordance with the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (Number in Worship Register: 63426; Name: Gospel Church; Address: Chapel Corner, Marchwood; Denomination: Christians Not Otherwise Designated. (Archived version of list from April 2010; subsequent updates)
Bibliography
[edit]- Chambers, Ralph (1952). The Strict Baptist Chapels of England: The Chapels of Surrey and Hampshire. Vol. 1. Thornton Heath: Ralph Chambers.
- Dwyer, Gerard (1981). Diocese of Portsmouth – Past and Present. Portsmouth: Portsmouth Diocesan Centenary Committee.
- Facey, Roy A., ed. (1981). International Church Index (Doctrinal). Index Publications. ISBN 0-907578-00-4. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- Hill, Roy (2002) [1990]. The Assemblies Address Book (PDF) (5th ed.). Bristol: Christian Year Publications. ISBN 1-872734-25-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2004. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- James, Jude (1994). East Boldre: A New Forest Squatters Settlement 1700–1900. The New Forest Research and Publications Trust. ISBN 0-9523888-0-4. Archived from the original on 24 September 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- Kelly, Bernard W. (1907). Historical Notes on English Catholic Missions (PDF). London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- McAuley, Fr James (16 July 2016). The Diocese of Portsmouth Parish Boundaries 2016 (PDF) (Report). Portsmouth: Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- Methodist Church of Great Britain (1947). Methodist Church Buildings: Statistical Returns including Seating Accommodation as at July 1st, 1940 (PDF). Manchester: The Department for Chapel Affairs. Retrieved 20 October 2019. (Available online in 14 parts; Guide to abbreviations on page 6)
- O'Brien, Charles; Bailey, Bruce; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David W. (2018). Hampshire: South. The Buildings of England. London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-22503-7.
- s.n. (June 1933). A List of Some Assemblies of the British Isles. London: Pickering & Inglis.
- Stell, Christopher (1991). Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England. London: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. ISBN 0-117011-81-9.