Cistercian monks began building Kirkstall Abbey in 1152 on land which ... gem with many asking one simple question - is the Abbey haunted? The grounds of the Abbey are said to be home to Mary ...

Kirkstall Abbey is cleaner than it used to be, I swear. When I was a child it was a great black hulk of a ruin, its stone darkened by the soot that used to fill the Aire Valley from thousands of ...

Autumn sunshine at Kirkstall Abbey in 1950 Many of the Cistercian abbeys were situated away from towns and villages. Monks had no personal belongings so they worked hard to support themselves ...

Rhian Isaac (pictured) said the book was "part of the city's history for more than half a millennium". A medieval book has been returned to the Yorkshire abbey where it was first studied by monks ...

Katherine Ryan and Ross Noble will be performing at the first Kirkstall Abbey Comedy Festival on 28 July. The open-air event in the ruins of the 12th Century abbey will have a capacity of 4,500.

Kirkstall Abbey is cleaner than it used to be, I swear. When I was a child it was a great black hulk of a ruin, its stone darkened by the soot that used to fill the Aire Valley from thousands of ...

A medieval book has been returned to the Yorkshire abbey where it was first studied by monks over 500 years ago. Known as the Kirkstall Missal, the book was printed in Paris in 1516 and once ...