Upper Itchen Benefice
Visiting
Due to security problems, the Church in the Woods is not open during the day except when there is a service taking place - although you can walk around the outside of the church in the open woodland at anytime.
Welcome to The Church in the Woods
This charming corrugated iron chapel in the woods adjoining Bramdean Common was built in 1883 by Alfred Bishop.
It was to provide a place of worship for charcoal burners and other itinerant people who stopped on the common and for those who lived nearby.
It is managed by three trustees of the Bishop Charity. Evensong services fortnightly from May to September have an average congregation of 25.