The park was once farmland belonging to St Mary's Abbey, which was dissolved in the middle of the sixteenth century and is now ruined.

[1] The ruins include a sandstone gatehouse and "carved stones from the Abbey doors and windows were incorporated into the doorway of the new St Nicholas Church.

"[1][2] St Nicholas Church, with origins from the mid sixteenth of seventeenth century, remains in the park.

[1] The park is now maintained by Warwick District Council and has a leisure-centre complex which includes indoor and outdoor swimming pools, five tennis courts and a large play area for children.

[3] Other features of the park include a cafe, the town's war memorial, and a museum charting the history of the abbey, located in the old barn.