Stoneleigh Abbey

Stoneleigh Abbey is a vast nation home arranged southwest of Coventry. Adjacent is the town of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England. Stoneleigh Abbey is a recorded bequest with a Grade I recorded building.In 1154 Henry II conceded arrive in the Forest of Arden to a gathering of Cistercians from Staffordshire.

There are different follows staying of the first Abbey structures, most remarkably the fourteenth-century Gatehouse. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the bequest was obtained by Sir Thomas Leigh, Lord Mayor of London in 1558. Charles, I gave Leigh the barony for his offering accommodation when the entryways of Coventry were shut to Charles amid the English Civil War.

A house was assembled which now frames the north and east wings of the present house on the site of the devout structures. It was the home of the Leigh family from 1561 to 1990. At the appropriate time, the Leigh family turned into the biggest land proprietor in Warwickshire.