BRANSGORE, a chapelry in the parish of CHRISTCHURCH, and hundred
of CHRISTCHURCH, New Forest (West) division
of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 6 miles (N. B. by N.)
from Christchurch, with which the population is returned.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Winchester, and in the patronage
of the "Vicar of Christchurch. The chapel was
built in 1823, at the expense of £2800, defrayed by the
parliamentary commissioners: it is a neat edifice, in
the later style of English architecture, with a tower
and spire, and contains four hundred and sixty-two
free sittings.