The church itself is described as redundant, no longer used for regular worship, and is managed by English Heritage as a heritage site.

Its extraordinary archaeological history, which includes many centuries of burials and multiple phases of church construction, makes it one of the most studied parish churches in Britain.

Displaying Conquest Man at St Peter’s returns him, in a sense, to his context.

The bones are in the place where they were found, in a church that has changed many times since his burial but that rests on the same ground.

Kevin Booth, who has spent twenty years with this skeleton, has described it as an opportunity to bring viewers “face to face with an everyday person who lived through the upheaval of the Norman Conquest.” That is the ambition of the project: not just to know what this man looked like, but to use that knowledge to make the past feel immediate and human.