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Garendon is a Cistercian abbey founded in the twelfth century in Leicestershire, established as a daughter house of Garendon in the Charnwood Forest area. The site comprises substantial earthwork remains including a prominent mound, fishponds, and the foundations and scattered masonry of the monastic buildings, which bear testimony to the abbey's medieval importance as a centre of Cistercian religious and economic activity. The later mansion constructed on or near the site represents post-Dissolution reuse of the monastic precinct, a pattern common among dissolved religious houses. The combination of monastic earthworks and subsequent domestic occupation makes Garendon an important archaeological record of religious change and landscape use from the medieval period through the early modern era.
Cistercian abbey and mansion, with fishpond and mound at Garendon is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009171. View the official record →
Garendon is a Cistercian abbey founded in the twelfth century in Leicestershire, established as a daughter house of Garendon in the Charnwood Forest area. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009171.
Cistercian abbey and mansion, with fishpond and mound at Garendon is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1009171.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including All Saints' Church, Dishley (1.8 km), Village cross at junction of Church Street and Cross Street (2.5 km), Circular enclosure 300m north east of Forest Field (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cistercian abbey and mansion, with fishpond and mound at Garendon's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cistercian abbey and mansion, with fishpond and mound at Garendon stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.