URPoint Details
Open any reasonable time; parking; dogs on leads only. Wheelchair accessible
Peaceful and beautiful setting for the extensive ruins of 13th century Cistercian abbey converted in Tudor times for use as a house.
The abbey was founded in the 13th century led by Peter ds Roches, a one time tutor to Henry III. At the Dissolution of the abbey, it passed into the hands of William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester and Comptroller of the Royal Household, and he made a house from the nave and south transept of the church and part of the abbey buildings. In the 18th century Netley was sold to a builder which he intended to demolish, and before he started a part of the west window collapsed on him and killed him.
The shell of the abbey is a graceful Early English style and measured over 210ft in length and the nave and chancel wall still stand.
Under the tower of the church of St Edward the Confessor can be seen part of a tomb of a knight, with crossed legs, originally came from the abbey.
- Type:
- Landmark