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Description: | The print was published in Robert Moody. 1838. Hampshire, volume 1, opposite p. 164. To Moody, Netley was "the finest monastic ruin in the south of England." It is instructive to compare this drawing with a photograph from almost the identical spot published in the official guide by the Department of the Environment (A Hamilton Thompson. 1953. Netley Abbey, Hampshire, p. 7). This shows the extent to which the vegetation has been cleared away, leaving the ruins fully exposed. This is a policy applauded by the late Nikolaus Pevsner: "It is right and proper to leave Odiham Castle rough and picturesque: at Netley there is too much to learn, and intellectual pleasures have their privileges side by side with visual ones."
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Pevsner, Nikolaus and David Lloyd. 1967. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Buildings of England series, p. 348. | 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: | church Netley ruins Netley Abbey abbey | Temporal: | start=1838-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | G H Shepherd; James Robbins; D E Gilmour, J Shury and Son | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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