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The fifteenth-century misericord
This stood against the south-east
corner of the misericord and
had two fire places, one with an oven, and a second oven in the
north wall. The complex measured 10m x 12m and was divided into
four rooms, the largest of which served as the kitchen; the room
in the SE corner was probably used as a scullery and there are
remains of a stone troughh or basin in the wall. A pentise ran
from the north side of the kitchen and would have provided shelter
for the monks transporting food from the kitchen to the misericord.
Dovecotes
and fishponds once stood to the south of the meat kitchen.
[See S. Moorhouse and S. Wrathmell, Kirkstall
Abbey I: the 1950-64 excavations:
a reassessment (Bradfield, 1987), pp. 33-39]
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