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Leiston Abbey is a Premonstratensian house founded in the early thirteenth century, relocated to its present site in Suffolk around 1363 from an earlier location at Minstead. The surviving ruins comprise substantial remains of the abbey church and claustral buildings, including parts of the west range and fragments of the gatehouse, constructed in flint and stone in the Perpendicular Gothic style characteristic of late medieval East Anglia. The site was dissolved during the Reformation under Henry VIII and subsequently converted to domestic and agricultural use, with the moated enclosure forming part of the medieval settlement pattern. The abbey's architectural remains and archaeological deposits preserve evidence of monastic life and the transition from religious to secular occupation following the Dissolution.
Leiston Abbey (second site) and moated site is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014520. View the official record →
Leiston Abbey is a Premonstratensian house founded in the early thirteenth century, relocated to its present site in Suffolk around 1363 from an earlier location at Minstead. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014520.
Leiston Abbey (second site) and moated site 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 1014520.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Leiston Abbey (first site) with later chapel and pill box (3.3 km), Two bowl barrows on Aldringham Green (3.4 km), Bowl barrow on Aldringham Common, 300m east of Stone House (3.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Leiston Abbey (second site) and moated site'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.
Leiston Abbey (second site) and moated site stands on Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Quaternary. The rock here is gravel, sand, silt and clay.