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Description: | This illustration was made by J P Andrews of Brompton and published in Gentleman's Magazine, volume 56, part 2, September 1786. The accompanying letter (p. 753) says: "I enclose a drawing which I made in the year 1784, of the monument erected on the spot where, according to steady tradition, William Rufus received his death's wound. It is somewhat extraordinary that the family of Purkess, mentioned in the inscription, still occupy the neighbouring cottages. The drawing is, I assure you, very exact; which is indeed its only merit. [the three inscriptions, one on each side of the monument, are here given]. The height of the stone is 5 feet 10 inches, and each side 1 foot 10 inches in width."
The inscriptions note the death (allegedly accidental) in 1100 of William II by an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrrel, and the removal of the body to Winchester in a cart belonging to one Purkess. The stone was set up by John Lord Delawar, who had seen the tree growing in this spot.
A more durable memorial of cast-iron was erected in 1841 by William Sturges Bourne (with an error in the inscription). The wooden memorial by then was much mutilated and defaced. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | sculpture Purkess murder memorial William Sturges Bourne Rufus Stone Walter Tyrrel monument Purkis Lord Delawar William Rufus William II | Temporal: | start=1784-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | J P Andrews; T P Andrews, Gentleman's Magazine | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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