Battle Of Barnet Obelisk

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Memorial details

Memorial type

District

Town

County

Country

Commemoration

Wars of the Roses (1455-1487)

Ceremony

Unveiled
Date: 1740
Attended by: UNKNOWN

Lost

Not lost

WM Reference

24375

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Current location

Junction of Great North Road and Hadley Highstone
Battle Of Barnet Obelisk
Great North Road
Monken Hadley
Barnet
Greater London
EN5 4QQ
England

OS Grid Ref: TQ 24660 97878
Denomination: Undefined

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Description

Four-sided obelisk on square base. Ordnance Survey benchmark on base. Also known as the "High Stone"

Inscription

Side 1: HERE was / fought the / Famous BATTLE / Between EDWARD / the 4th and the / EARL of WARWICK / April the 14th / ANNO / 1471. / in which the EARL / was Defeated / And Slain. SIDE 2: TO HATFIELD VII MILES 3/4 SIDE 3: FROM ST ALBANS VIII MILES 3/4 SIDE 4: THIS WAS ERECTED 1740

Inscription legible?

yes

Names on memorial

Earl Of Warwick
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Commemorations

Wars of the Roses (1455-1487)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: title, place and date of death
Order of information: Undefined

Components

Obelisk
Measurements: height 3658mm
Materials: Stone

Listing information

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Condition

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History

Moved from its original position on the edge of the battlefield. (Warren p.5).

Costs

Comments: Erected by Sir Jeremy Sambrooke (d.1754) of Gobions.

Trust fund/Scholarship

No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A

Sponsorship

Private

Reference

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE BATTLEFIELDS OF BRITAIN by SMURTHWAITE, D pp.113-114 Source: Image Library
Herts & Cambs Reporter & Royston Crow - Friday 20 July 1906 Herts Count Council took over the monument and its maintenance
Buildings of England series by Various Hertfordshire 2nd ed (1977) pp.113, 251.

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