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Archive : Christchurch & Southampton

Christchurch's vast parish church was founded as an Augustinian monastery.

Christchurch Priory. The east end. Christchurch Priory.
Remains of Norman work overlaid with layers of gothic. The high windows of the quire. The vaulted porch.
The nave. The Berkeley chantry. The nave.
The rood screen. The chantry chapel of Robert Harys. The Harys chantry.
The Salisbury chantry chapel (c. 1520). The chantry chapel of John Draper (1529). Memorial to Percy Bysshe Shelley (actually buried in Rome).
The Salisbury chantry chapel. A gift of Henry Oake. Memorial to William Gordon Cameron (died in the Sudan).
Tomb of Lord Thomas West. Unusual engaged pendants in the lady chapel (possibly the earliest pendant vault). The lady chapel (c. 1400).
The reredos. The quire. The quire.
Tomb of Harriet Susan, Viscountess Fitzharris. Access to the crypt. The quire vault.
The Salisbury chantry chapel. The Salisbury chantry chapel. Engaged pendants in the quire vault.
The castle. The old court house. The Christian Centre.
The ducking stool. Memorial for the founding of the priory. Place Mill.

Netley Abbey was a Cistercian monastery founded in the 1200s and dissolved in 1536.

Netley Abbey.
The east end. What remains of the west front. The west front.
The nave looking east. Looking west. The south transept.
Vaulted chamber. Vaulted chamber. The reredorter.
The chapter house. Chapter house entrance from the cloister. The Victorian church of Netley.

Southampton has long been a port town much like Portsmouth.

The Civic Centre. The Bargate. The Bargate.
Merchants' Hall and a city gate. Merchant's house. The Duke Of Wellington pub.
The Tudor House. Holyrood Church. Holyrood Church.
The Tudor House. The Prudential building. St. Michael's.