St Mary's Church, Fordingbridge

Lands in Fordingbridge and the advowson of the church were granted to King's College, Cambridge in 1447 by Henry VI, after being given to the Crown by Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham.

Externally the church has changed little since the 16th century, although originally the exterior flint work would have been plastered as at one of its neighbours, St Mary, Breamore.

In very recent years the Victorian pews were replaced by chairs to facilitate using the space much more flexibly.

The churchyard has a monument to the safe-building family of Chubb, and also a memorial to the last British man killed in a duel in England, James Alexander Seton.

In modern times the churchyard has been cleared to allow easier maintenance, and many of the gravestones now form the path from the lichgate to the north porch.