HOUND, a parish in the hundred of MANSBRIDGE,
Fawley division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 3 miles
(S.E. byE.) from Southampton, containing 387 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's
books at £5. 4. 7, and in the patronage of the Warden
and Fellows of Winchester College. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. This parish lies on the verge of
the Southampton water, at a short distance from the
banks of which, and surrounded by well-wooded and
gently-rising grounds, are the celebrated ruins of Netley
abbey, founded, in 1239, for monks of the Cistercian
order, the revenue of which was valued at the dissolution
at £160. 2. 9.: the remains of the chapel, which
is cruciform, are particularly beautiful; the length is
two hundred feet, the breadth sixty, and the length of
the transept one hundred and twenty. Here is also
an ancient crypt, forty-eight feet long, and eighteen
wide, commonly called the Abbpt's Kitchen; the addi-
tional ruins are, parts of the chapter-house and refectory
the richly-ornamented east window, with a circular
compartment, an arch of the west window, richly
mantled with ivy, and the south transept. Near the
abbey, and more contiguous to Southampton water, are
the remains of a small fort, called Netley Castle, erected
by Henry VIII.