Kirkstall Abbey: history
• Sources
• Foundation
• Consolidation
• Rise and Fall
• Dissolution

Kirkstall Abbey: buildings
• Precinct
• Church
• Cloister
• Sacristy
• Library
• Chapter House
• Parlour
• Day Room
• Dormitory
• Reredorters
• Warming House
• Refectory
• Kitchen
• Lay Brothers' Range
• Abbots'Lodging
• Infirmary
• Guesthouse
• Gatehouse

Kirkstall Abbey: Lands

Kirkstall Abbey: people

Kirkstall library: footnotes

1. This may be the earliest reference to Leeds Grammar, see A. Lonsdale, ‘The last monks of Kirkstall Abbey’ , Publications of the Thoresby Soc. Miscellany 15 (Leeds, 1972), p. 206 fn. 34.

2. Lonsdale, ‘The last monks of Kirkstall Abbey’, p. 206; C. Cross, ‘Community and solidarity among Yorkshire religious after the Dissolution’ , in Monastic Studies: the Continuity of Tradition, ed. J. Loades (Bangor, 1990), pp. 245-54, at p. 247.

3. For a complete list of these books, see D. Bell, An Index of Authors and Works in Cistercian Libraries in Great Britain (Kalamazoo, 1992), p. 244.

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Kirkstall Abbey Bibliography