
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Chapel or Church: Freestanding building
- District
- Rother
- Town
- Battle
- County
- East Sussex
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Norman Conquest (1066-1072)
- Ceremony
- Consecrated
Date: 1076
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Consecrated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 43443
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Current location
Battle Abbey
High Street
Battle
Rother
East Sussex
TN33 0AD
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 74960 15730
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- A walled former abbey with a ruined church whose high alter marked the spot where King Harold died. This is now marked by an inscribed stone.
- Inscription
- Stone slab:- THE TRADITIONAL SITE OF / THE HIGH ALTAR OF BATTLE ABBEY / FOUNDED TO COMMEMORATE / THE VICTORY OF DUKE WILLIAM / ON 14 OCTOBER 1066 / THE HIGH ALTAR WAS PLACED TO MARK / THE SPOT WHERE KING HAROLD DIED
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Norman Conquest (1066-1072)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Date of death, rank, forename
Order of information: Undefined
- Norman Conquest (1066-1072)
- Components
- Church
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Church
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- English Heritage
- Reference
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