St Veronica's

[jbor at bigpond.com]

> This is the sort of thing P's got in mind. It's tough to find pictures
> of these tings because no one wants to look at them anymore. Knebworth
> is perhaps one of the most accessible of these things, though it is
> north of London rather than on the south-eastern coast.

I think you're getting St Veronica's mixed up with 'The White 
Visitation'. And there are plenty of pictures of the style of 
architecture.

St Veronica's Hospital is in London; it's "a lengthy brick 
improvisation, a Victorian paraphrase of what once, long ago, resulted 
in Gothic cathedrals ... " (i.e. so it's not Perpendicular Gothic and 
it's not necessarily exclusively neo-Gothic), and it's near St 
Veronica's Downtown Bus Station (see ps 46 & 50).

My best bet is something along the lines of the Midland Grand Hotel and 
St Pancras Railway Station in King's Cross:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:StPancrasMidlandHotel.jpg

'The White Visitation' is a red brick Palladian house beside a ruined 
"ancient Abbey" and seacliffs (72-3). Over the centuries, with various 
renovations and decorative additions, it has become "a classic 'folly'" 
(82-3). It's somewhere along the coast of Kent or East Sussex, near the 
fictitious village of "Ick Regis" (cf. Bognor Regis and Lyme Regis).

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