- Kirkstall Abbey is a major historical site for the city of Leeds and held an important role in the city’s development from the High Middle Ages onwards.
- We also found out interesting and peculiar facts, for instance: in the late Victorian era, a road used to run through the centre of the abbey building.
- Now looming incongruously over the Leeds suburb of Kirkstall, the giant abbey ruins remain a picturesque window to Yorkshire’s past.
- Western end of the ruined church at Kirkstall Abbey, built by Cistercian monks from Fountains Abbey between 1152 and 1182.
- With its beautiful and iconic ruins, award-winning Park and interactive visitor centre Kirkstall Abbey is a place that visitors of all ages can enjoy.
- Comparable to Tintern Abbey, Kirkstall Abbey’s reputation as one of the most intact Cistercian abbeys left in the United Kingdom is undoubted and its...
- The transept of Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds, on a fine cloudy summer's day. ... Kirkstall Abbey, a Cistercian monastery ruin in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
- Kirkstall Abbey, located in the suburb of Kirkstall in Leeds, West Yorkshire, is a remarkable and well-preserved Cistercian monastery founded in 1152.
- Kirkstall Abbey harap bir Sistersiyen Kirkstall manastırı, Leeds şehir merkezinin kuzey-batısında, Batı Yorkshire , İngiltere.
- The abbey grounds are a public park, and are used for occasional events such as the annual Kirkstall Festival and the Kirkstall Fantasia open-air concerts.