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English: 1485 August 20th and 21st , Henry Tudor, Duke of Richmond stayed at Merevale Abbey before the Battle of Bosworth and his army camped nearby.

1503 September. King Henry VII stayed at the Abbey again. Stained glass of St Armel, his Patron Saint was placed in the south aisle of the Gate Chapel.

1511 August 30th. King Henry VIII and Queen Catherine of Aragon stayed at Merevale Abbey to visit the site of the battle.

Merevale Abbey was a Cistercian house founded in 1148 by Robert, Earl Ferrers. It was dissolved in 1538. The Abbey's gatehouse chapel is now the parish church. The remains consist mainly of the north and south walls of the Refectory.

MEREVALE MEREVALE LANE SP29NE (South-east side) Remains of Merevale Abbey (Formerly listed as Remains of Merevale Abbey in garden of farm) GV II* Abbey ruins. C13. Regular coursed sandstone. The remains consist principally of the north and south walls of the Refectory. The north wall rises to approximately 6 metres high on the left. 10 bar-stop chamfered buttresses have moulded plinth and gablets. The wall drops to about 1.25 metres high. On the right is another large section of wall surrounding the elaborately moulded portal to the transept, of 3 orders with remains of nook-shafts. Beyond is a smaller, simpler archway of 2 chamfered orders; a section of curved wall to the right, probably largely rebuilt, is attached to Abbey Farmhouse (q.v.). Inside, the portal has a round arch and hood mould. To the right the wall has a high dado and 6 closely-set attached shafts with moulded bases and fillets; some retain moulded capitals. South wall has high splay and moulded plinth and remains of buttresses to left and right. Slight projection containing reading pulpit and staircase is approximately 4 metres high. Low section of wall to right. Inside is a moulded doorway with hood mould, the stone staircase with 2 quatrefoil peep-holes, and traces of 2 shafts of the pulpit.

Scheduled ancient monument.