Benjamin Green - 'at Barnet', 1786

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

2006.6384

Etching by Benjamin Green, entitled "at Barnet", initialled B.G. bottom right, dated 1786. The obelisk seen here, sometimes referred to as St Alban's Cross, is better known as Hadley Highstone and still stands at Hadley (now Hadley Highstone, near Monken Hadley, EN4, part of the modern London Borough of Barnet, formerly part of Hertfordshire.) It was erected by Sir Jeremy Sambrook in 1740 to commemorate the spot where 'Warwick the Kingmaker' was supposed to have fallen at the Battle of Barnet on April 14th, 1471, during the Wars of the Roses. Part of the Lewis Evans Collection.

1786

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Amy Cooke

4) Verulamium Archive Room

Hadley Highstone, Monken Hadley, Barnet, London, EN4.

PWD Box 50 (grey).

30/01/2007