30/08/2021
Here at 3dprintoutz4u we love the local heritage Southampton has to offer, one place in particular that has been around for quite some time is Netley Abbey, we have visited the abbey many times and have always wondered what it may of looked like when it was first built, so now through the power of computer software we have been able to create a 3D model of Netley Abbey as it looked in the 13th century and this model is of course fully 3D printable.
Printing of the Netley Abbey has already started so keep a look out for updates.
We are also working on some other local heritage projects and locations in and around Southampton including Netley Hospital, Solent Flour Mills, Southampton’s Royal Pier and Fawley Power Station.
Is there anything you would like to see as a 3D print? A place, vehicle or animal maybe? If so then get in touch so we can turn your idea into a reality.
For those who don't know of Netley Abbey here is a brief description and history.
Netley Abbey is a ruined late medieval monastery in the village of Netley near Southampton in Hampshire, England. The abbey was founded in 1239 as a house for monks of the austere Cistercian order. Despite royal patronage, Netley was never rich, produced no influential scholars nor churchmen, and its nearly 300-year history was quiet. The monks were best known to their neighbours for the generous hospitality they offered to travellers on land and sea.
In 1536, Netley Abbey was seized by Henry VIII of England during the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the buildings granted to William Paulet, a wealthy Tudor politician, who converted them into a mansion. The abbey was used as a country house until the beginning of the eighteenth century, after which it was abandoned and partially demolished for building materials. Subsequently the ruins became a tourist attraction, and provided inspiration to poets and artists of the Romantic movement. In the early twentieth century the site was given to the nation, and it is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument, cared for by English Heritage. The extensive remains consist of the church, cloister buildings, abbot's house, and fragments of the post-Dissolution mansion. Netley Abbey is one of the best preserved medieval Cistercian monasteries in southern England.
