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Leicester City Council Scheduled Ancient Monuments Name Address List Entry Date of Scheduling Additional Information Number The 'Roman' Bridge, Belgrave Thurcaston Road 1005077 03.09.1987 Centroid SK 5905 073 Much altered medieval bridge; not Roman Jewry Wall St Nicholas Circle 1013312 19.07.1920 Centroid SK 5820 0448 Remains of a Roman bath house, palaestra and Anglo-Saxon church King William's Bridge Sheepwash Lane, Ansty 1003806 03.09.1987 Centroid SK 5563 0895 Leicester abbey and 17th Abbey Park Road 1012149 18.07.1995 Centroid SK 5842 0587Abbey Ruins, Abbot Penny's century mansion and Wall, 17th Century Mansion and Ornamental Gardens ornamental gardens Leicester Castle and the Castle View, The 1012147 26.06.1924 Centroid SK 5831 0419 Magazine Gateway Newarke Castle Mound (Motte); the Turret Gateway; the Great Hall of Leicester Castle, and the 'Dungeon' or John of Gaunt's cellar (formerly the County Court) and The Newarke - Magazine Gateway Moated site at New Parks, Battersbee Road 1010664 22.03.1949 Centroid SK 5527 0588 Leicester Known locally as Birds Nest Lodge. Moated site with traces of a lodge on the central island Moated site with fishponds at Church Road, Evington 1010686 09.10.1911 Centroid SK 6263 0274 Evington Known locally as ‘Piggy’s Hollow’. Moated Site with Fishponds Preceptory, boundary, two Astill Lodge Road 1009196 10.04.1980 Centroid SK 5651 0926 mounds, fishpond and dam at Known locally as Castle Hill. Medieval Earthworks: Beaumont Leys Preceptory, boundary, two mounds, fishpond and dam The Raw Dykes Roman Aylestone Road 1017391 04.12.1924 Centroid SK 5833 0259 aqueduct Identified as an aquaduct – no archaeological evidence to support this interpretation The 'Roman' Bridge, Aylestone off Marsden Lane 1003132 03.09.1987 Centroid SK 5678 0093 Known locally as the Packhorse Bridge, medieval in origin – not Roman Greyfriars New Street, Leicester, 1442955 13.12.2017 Centroid SK 5854 0432 LE1 5NE Greyfriars, Leicester, a 13th century Franciscan friary the church of which later became the burial place of King Richard III. .

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