Owston Augustinian Abbey with six fishponds, a gatehouse and boundary

Heritage listing

Details The monument at Owston is situated on the relatively high ground of east Leicestershire and includes an Augustinian abbey with six fishponds, the below ground remains of a gatehouse, and a boundary ditch and bank. The site is contained within two constraint areas. The remains of the abbey buildings are located in the vicinity of, and incorporated in, the parish church of St Andrew, which is a grade I listed building. Features within St Andrew's church date from the 12th century, with a chancel situated below ground, external to the present church. It is considered that the cloister and its associated buildings lie to the south of the church where stonework is known to exist beneath the present ground surface. Further stonework can be seen exposed in earthworks 100m to the south-west which indicates associated buildings. The foundations of a building, surviving as an earthwork, can also be seen some 300m to the south-west situated on the highest ground contained within the site. A gatehouse, demolished in the late 18th century, stood adjoining the south-west corner of the nave. Other earthwork features associated with the abbey, the principal elements of which are two sets of fishponds, are located to the west of the buildings and extend north-south for over 500m. The first is a complex of four fishponds, contained within the area south of the road, which currently contain no visible water but are largely waterlogged and follow the course of a stream running from south to north. Fishpond No.1 is the most southerly in the complex and measures approximately 100 x 25m. A bypass channel on the eastern side, which would have been utilised by a series of sluices, extends past fishpond No.2 which measures 50 x 30m. Fishpond No.3 measures 60 x 25m and No.4 is a large fis

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.