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Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland, 1872. Creator: Unknown.

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Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland, 1872. 'Romsey Abbey Church; East Window, Netley; Gateway at Carisbrooke; Old city walls, Southampton; Bargate, Southampton; Rufus Stone, Minestead; Porchester Castle; St. Cross Church; Christchurch Abbey. The Hospital of St. Cross, or the Holy Cross [was] founded in 1136...The Bar Gate...was formerly the north gate of Southampton...the ruins of Netley Abbey...afford good examples of thirteenth-century building...The Abbey Church of Romsey...is said to display, more completely than any other, the outline and aspect of a purely Norman conventual church...Porchester Castle was built in Norman times...The castle walls, 18 ft. high and from 8 ft. to 12 ft. thick, with a ditch outside, inclose an area of nine acres...Close to the little inn at Stoney Cross is the spot where, it is said, King William Rufus was killed, while hunting...a triangular stone, five feet high, partly cased with iron, and bearing a lengthy inscription...was put up in 1745...the small town of Christchurch...takes its name from the great Augustinian Priory, established here in 1150 upon the site of an earlier Saxon monastic foundation. The church [is] a building of two different periods, Norman and Late Perpendicular'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A79_415

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64,8Mo (4,7Mo) / 33,7cm x 48,2cm / 3979 x 5690 (300dpi)

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