Ossington

Ossington is a village and civil parish in the county of Nottinghamshire, England 7 miles north of Newark-on-Trent.

[1] It was centred on Ossington Hall, the ancestral home of the Denison family, but the house was demolished in 1964 and all that remains are a few outbuildings and a private chapel that now serves the parish as Holy Rood Church, Ossington.

This is a Grade I listed building, originally 12th century and rebuilt in 1782–1783 by the architect John Carr, with minor 19th-century alterations and additions.

He neglected to recall that he had earlier made the property over to the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem.

The house was damaged during the Civil War and in 1753 passed to William Denison, a merchant of Leeds.

John Denison's heir was his eldest son, John Evelyn Denison (1800–1873), Speaker of the House of Commons, who held the estates from 1820 until his death in 1873, and was created Viscount Ossington in 1872.

Ossington Hall was built in 1729, enlarged about 1790 and demolished in 1964. The gates remain as a grand entrance to a drive that now leads only to the parkland and Holy Rood church.