Battle Abbey is a partially ruined Benedictine abbey in Battle, East Sussex, England. In 1070, Pope Alexander II ordered the Normans to do penance for killing so many people during their conquest of England. In response, William the Conqueror started to build an abbey dedicating it to St. Martin, sometimes known as "the Apostle of the Gauls," where the Battle of Hastings had taken place, with the high altar of its church on the supposed spot where King Harold fell in that battle on Saturday, 14 October 1066.
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Battle Abbey is a partially ruined Benedictine abbey in Battle, East Sussex, England. In 1070, Pope Alexander II ordered the Normans to do penance for killing so many people during their conquest of England. In response, William the Conqueror started to build an abbey dedicating it to St. Martin, sometimes known as "the Apostle of the Gauls, " where the Battle of Hastings had taken place, with the high altar of its church on the supposed spot where King Harold fell in that battle on Saturday, 14 October 1066. William died before it was completed about 1094 and consecrated during the reign of his son William known as Rufus. It was remodelled in the late 13th century but virtually destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538 under King Henry VIII.