page_title: List of places of worship in the Borough of Eastleigh
section_title: Overview of the borough and its places of worship
hierarchical_section_title: List of places of worship in the Borough of Eastleigh / Overview of the borough and its places of worship
caption_attribution_description: Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Freegrounds Road, Hedge End, Borough of Eastleigh, Hampshire, England. A Roman Catholic parish church serving Hedge End and the surrounding area.
context_page_description: As of 2020, there are nearly 70 current and former places of worship in the borough of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England. Various Christian denominations and groups use 55 churches, chapels and halls for worship and other activities, and a further 12 buildings no longer serve a religious function but survive in alternative uses. Eastleigh is one of 13 local government districts in the county of Hampshire—a large county in central southern England, with a densely populated coastal fringe facing the English Channel and a more rural hinterland. The borough, which is predominantly urban and suburban in character, is centrally located in the south of the county between the major cities of Southampton and Portsmouth and forms part of the South Hampshire conurbation. Its main town is also called Eastleigh.
  Many settlements in the borough have ancient origins, being recorded in the Domesday Book, and several churches can trace their origins back to that period.
context_section_description: The borough of Eastleigh covers 30.8 square miles (80 km²) of land in central southern Hampshire, close to the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth.  Southampton Water, a tidal estuary between The Solent and the city of Southampton, forms the southern boundary of the borough; on the other side is the district of New Forest.  Clockwise from the southwest, there are land boundaries with the unitary authority of Southampton, the borough of Test Valley, the City of Winchester and the borough of Fareham.  The borough's character is largely urban and suburban, and the estimated population as of mid-2016 was nearly 130,000.  The main towns are Eastleigh, Chandler's Ford and Hedge End; most residents live in these settlements or in the villages of Bishopstoke, Botley, Bursledon, Fair Oak, Hamble-le-Rice, Horton Heath, Netley and West End.  The borough is long from north to south and narrow; the southern part, bounded to the east by the River Hamble, gives the borough a coastline on Southampton Water.
  The first Christian churches in the area were founded during the Saxon era, but no trace remains of the original 10th-century chapels at North Stoneham or Bishopstoke.  These were recorded in the Domesday survey of 1086, along with the church at Botley (originally dedicated to All Saints; later to St Bartholomew); but no mention was made of the ancient churches at Hamble-le-Rice, Hound and Bursledon.  St Andrew's Church at Hamble was first recorded in 1128 and was an alien priory controlled by Tiron Abbey in France; this explains its unusual dimensions, as its chancel and nave were effectively two separate churches attached end to end, serving the priory and local parishioners respectively.  The priory also held St Mary's Church at Hound, "a complete Early English Gothic hamlet church" which is mostly 13th-century in form but which retains some stonework from an older building, and St Leonard's Church at Bursledon—built in the second half of the 12th century but much altered, although a remodelling of 1888 restored some features lost in "large-scale alterations of 1832–33".  The "intriguing" St Nicholas' Church at North Stoneham is medieval and has some work from c. 1230, but its appearance has also changed greatly over the centuries.
  As well as the restoration and remodelling of the ancient Church of England parish churches, much new churchbuilding was carried out in the villages in the 19th century, especially during the Victorian era, to provide new places of worship for Anglicans.  The old church south of Botley village was replaced by one in the village centre in 1836, extended in 1859 and further reworked in the 1890s.  It took its predecessor's original dedication to All Saints.  Bishopstoke's original church was replaced in 1825, but its tower became structurally unsafe and a new, larger church was built on a new site in 1889–91.  Hound's tiny church, although still in use, was superseded by a larger one nearer the centre of the parish's population in Netley in 1885–86.  The sudden growth of the railway town of Eastleigh between 1860 and 1900–from nothing to a population of over 7,000, with further rapid growth thereafter–also prompted a period of rapid churchbuilding by the Church of England, both in the town and in nearby settlements which became suburbanised.  The Church of the Resurrection (closed 1978) near Eastleigh railway station was started in 1868 and became the town's parish church in 1905; All Saints served the south side of town from 1908 and is now the parish church; Chandler's Ford, originally in North Stoneham parish, had a tin tabernacle from 1881, replaced by a permanent church in 1904; St Thomas's Church at Fair Oak near Bishopstoke was built in 1863; Hedge End's church, with its prominent spire, opened in 1874; and at nearby West End, a small chapel of 1838 was replaced on a larger scale fifty years later.  As suburban growth continued in the second half of 20th century, Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke, Hedge End and Bursledon all grew large enough for additional Anglican churches to be built—in 1960, 1962, 
caption: The Catholic church in Hedge End replaced an earlier building in 1975.
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