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Description: | We are looking at the south transept and the south quire aisle. This view is almost contemporary with an account of the remains of Netley Abbey by J C Buckler in Gentleman's Magazine, November 1816, p. 405-7. "The south transept is in a very perfect state. Its side aisle, with the stone vaulting, is nearly entire; and the arches of the sides, the springers of the main roof, their mouldings and ornaments, are exquisitely perfectÂ…. That unnecessary havoc is continually making, it is needless to state; but it is satisfactory to learn that if no stop will at present be put to such wanton mischief, it may be at some future time adopted; that a lawless horde of men and school-boys may be prevented following the mischievous delight of ascending the stair-cases, and throwing down the walls and groins piecemeal, and disfiguring those ornamental parts which escaped the barbarism of earlier days." Surely this does not apply to the two gentlemen in our engraving? | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Netley church vandalism ruins Netley Abbey abbey | Temporal: | start=1815-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | L S; I Clark, A Constable and Co | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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