English Heritage sites near Owthorpe Parish
JEWRY WALL
18 miles from Owthorpe Parish
A length of Roman bath-house wall over 9 metres (30 feet) high, near a museum displaying the archaeology of Leicester and its region.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
20 miles from Owthorpe Parish
The picturesque moated remains - including the fine gatehouse and a complete corner tower - of this brick-built fortified mansion have recently been extensively conserved by English Heritage.
RUFFORD ABBEY
20 miles from Owthorpe Parish
The best-preserved remains of a Cistercian abbey west cloister range in England, dating mainly from about 1170. Incorporated into part of a 17th century and later mansion, set in Rufford Country Park.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
22 miles from Owthorpe Parish
Ashby Castle forms the backdrop to the famous jousting scenes in Sir Walter Scott's classic novel of 1819, Ivanhoe. Now a ruin, the castle began as a manor house in the 12th century.
WINGFIELD MANOR
23 miles from Owthorpe Parish
The vast and immensely impressive ruins of a palatial medieval manor house, with a huge undercrofted Great Hall and a defensible High Tower 22 metres (72 feet) tall.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
23 miles from Owthorpe Parish
The remodelled family home of Bess of Hardwick, one of the richest and most remarkable women of Elizabethan England, stands beside the New Hall she raised later in the 1590s.
Churches in Owthorpe Parish
Owthorpe: St Margaret
Village Street
Owthorpe
Nottingham
01159892223
Owthorpe Church dedicated in honour of St Margaret has stood on its present site since 1140. It has been rebuilt or added to over the years and is certainly much smaller today with only the north wall of the much larger church remaining.
St Margaret’s has many interesting features including a 3- decker pulpit with a Jacobean moulded canopy regularly used by our minister when preaching his sermon.
A font with its embattled edge dates from the 14th century and has seen many baptisms over the years. A painted screen and a single-handed clock dates bears the date 1705. The church also has a chalice and communion plate dating c 1576 donated by Colonel John Hutchinson, which is used regularly for worship at St Margaret's.
Money is needed to continue the preservation of this historic place of worship. Fundraising takes place on a regular basis and uses the collective strengths of the villagers building both the community sprit and the restoration fund.
No churches found in Owthorpe Parish