The United Reformed Church denomination, formed from the amalgamation of the Congregational Church and the Presbyterian Church of England in 1972, is represented in Chandler's Ford and Hedge End; both causes were originally Congregational. Another chapel in Bursledon is no longer in use, and in Eastleigh the former United Reformed church has been demolished, having been deregistered in 1993. The town has a modern Salvation Army citadel, though, and the original premises on the High Street still stand: built in 1887, the hall is now the town's museum. A large new Salvation Army community centre and church opened in 2014 in Hedge End, again replacing older premises; but the cause in Fair Oak lasted only four years before its building passed into secular use. Brethren groups became established in Eastleigh in the 1880s, when a small assembly met regularly in a room in the town's cheese market. The first Gospel hall was built on the High Street in 1887, and another was registered on Northlands Road in 1908. The meeting room at The Crescent dates from 1967 and is now part of the Brethren sect known as the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. Since 1989 the main regional meeting hall for this group has been at Chestnut Avenue in the south of the town, and there are smaller meeting rooms at Hedge End, West End, Chandler's Ford and Allbrook.
