The Grace Dieu Priory was an independent Augustinian priory near Thringstone in Leicestershire, England. It was founded around 1235-1241 by Roesia de Verdun and dissolved in 1538. It was dedicated to
The remains of the south range of Grace Dieu Priory
Grace Dieu Priory chapter house
View across the cloister, of the chapter house and south range, from the west end of the nave of the conventual church
Garendon Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located between Shepshed and Loughborough, in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
Grace Dieu Priory
…priory ruins. The March Phillipps de Lisle family owned the house until 1933, although their main residence was at the Hall they built at the former Garendon Abbey. Following the death of two of its heads in quick succession, the family needed to reduce its expenditure and so in 1885 moved out of Garendon and into…
"The Temple of Venus": one of the Palladian follies built when the abbey's former estate was landscaped
Garendon Abbey Chapter House foundations
Garendon Abbey remains of drain
Garendon Abbey monastic fish ponds