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 Bar formerly the north gate of ruins of Netley good examples of thirteenth-century Abbey Church of said to display, more completely than any other, the outline and aspect of a purely Norma


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 Bar formerly the north gate of ruins of Netley good examples of thirteenth-century Abbey Church of said to display, more completely than any other, the outline and aspect of a purely Norman conventual Castle was built in Norman castle walls, 18 ft. high and from 8 ft. to 12 ft. thick, with a ditch outside, inclose an area of nine to the little inn at Stoney Cross is the spot where, it is said, King William Rufus was killed, while triangular stone, five feet high, partly cased with iron, and bearing a lengthy put up in small town of 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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