The trustees of the 250 year old Priory House standing in the shadow of the Priory have stirred up the local historical society.  The Christchurch Historical Society are objecting to a bid by the trustees of the house to remove a belvedere turret window from the roof of the house.  The historians say that this would rip out an architechural asset.

The house was built by as a place of reitrement for a wealthy merchant from Sweden and also chief of the Bank of England, Gustavas Brander.  Constructed in 1763 on the destroyed site of the  medieval cloisters by Henry the Eighth and his Dissolution.