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Eleanor Cross at Delapre Abbey is a fourteenth-century memorial cross erected in the 1290s as part of the series commissioned by Edward I to mark the resting places of his wife Eleanor of Castile's funeral cortège as it travelled from Harby in Nottinghamshire to Westminster Abbey. The cross stands approximately one kilometre south-west of Delapre Abbey itself and represents one of the surviving examples from this celebrated series, though it has undergone significant restoration work over the centuries. The monument originally consisted of an ornamental stone cross mounted upon a base structure typical of the Eleanor Cross designs, serving as a prominent roadside marker and testament to the royal commemoration programme of the late thirteenth century. The cross remains an important archaeological and historical record of medieval royal patronage and the ceremonial landscape of medieval Northamptonshire.
Eleanor Cross 1km south west of Delapre Abbey is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015536. View the official record →
Eleanor Cross at Delapre Abbey is a fourteenth-century memorial cross erected in the 1290s as part of the series commissioned by Edward I to mark the resting places of his wife Eleanor of Castile's funeral cortège as it travelled from Harby in Nottinghamshire to Westminster Abbey. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015536.
Eleanor Cross 1km south west of Delapre Abbey is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1015536.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Multivallate hillfort at Hunsbury Hill (1.6 km), Saxon palace complex and Saxon and medieval urban deposits in the centre of Northampton (2.1 km), Northampton Castle, remains of (2.3 km).
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