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18th-century Artists' Impressions of Kirkstall Abbey

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Engraving of the subdorter in the east range of Kirkstall Abbey. J.M.W.Turner's original watercolour of 1798 was engraved by John Scott and published May 1st 1814. It was then described as the refectory of Kirkstall Abbey but we know now that it was the room beneath the monks' dormitory. The engraving shows the vaulting as intact but it had collapsed by 1823 when another artist George Cuitt made an engraving of the room showing it open to the sky.

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Engraving of the subdorter in the east range of Kirkstall Abbey. J.M.W.Turner's original watercolour of 1798 was engraved by John Scott and published May 1st 1814. It was then described as the refectory of Kirkstall Abbey but we know now that it was the room beneath the monks' dormitory. The engraving shows the vaulting as intact but it had collapsed by 1823 when another artist George Cuitt made an engraving of the room showing it open to the sky.