Titchfield Abbey is a place I grew up with. I remember going there well before starting school picking apples and having fun. Nowadays I go there at least three or four times a year. The place is a shell of a former Tudor house built by Thomas Wriothsley, First Earl of Southampton. Everything is stripped back revelaing the walls in their bare state.
To give you an idea, this is the main gatehouse. Very Tudor in design.
Immediately insuide the gate, there are numerous mason marks to lock the plaster in to the underlying limestone.
On the south tower. This is of course, decorative.
Just inside the Gatehouse.
There are of course two fireplaces, representing the different floors. But here, I am admiring the brickwork. Interestingly, there is a Tudor fireplace frontage, which both of thses are missing, in a local pub.
Wonderful display of brick, limestone and the overlaying plaster.
There is much graffitee and mason work “marks”.
The Windows would have been glazed, but the frames here were still stone, part of the walls.
Apologies for some of the over-exposure. I was having one of those days.
Find our more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titchfield_Abbey
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