Kirkstall

Yeah, definitely.

You know, me and Marlon, we're in the same office together down at Kirkstall.

And then, you know, that's just off from Ian Blee's and Brad Arthur's office and the rest of the rugby staff there.

So we're all tight-knit and close by to each other.

[engine roaring] I seen John Taylor rabbiting on railway banks.

He's round there over near Kirkstall.

And from there, you can walk right across viaduct and come out in Burley Park railway station.

station.In 1996, emergency services were called to put out a fire at Burley Park Railway Station in Leeds.

So I think underfoot conditions will play a huge part in what punters are thinking, and I think Friday's action will maybe firm up a few ideas that punters have.

So where should the Kirkstall, Kirkstall Lion end at, at Headingley? Um, what about the Curragh then on Saturday? Like, like Johnny, the, the Debutante Stakes at 2:50, Group Two for, uh, fillies, uh, two-year-olds, seven furlongs.

Um, this Alpha is fascination.

She's beautifully bred.

they begin with a contemporary narrative of the foundation of the abbey and extend to the grant which the king-maid of the abbey lands after the suppression they include the chronicle of the administrations of the abbots the deed of the ground on which the abbey stands a series of royal charters and a series of papal privileges various records of the dealings of the monastery with its neighbors clerical and lay letters to thomas cromwell from leighton and lee the commissioners at whose demand the abbey was surrendered and from marmaduke bradley the abbot who surrendered it and the king's assignment of pensions by name to the abbot and the monks after the dissolution Of these documents, the longest and most interesting is the contemporary account of the foundation, Narratio de Fundazione Fontanes Monasterie.

It was written by Hugh, a monk of the daughter-house of Kirkstall, upon information given him by Serlo, an aged brother then resident in that abbey who had once lived at Fountains.

Serlo was almost a hundred years old when he sat in the sun in the cloister of Kirkstall and told this story of his early days, answering Hugh's questions.

"'It is now,' he says, "'the sixty-ninth year of my conversion.

When I first went to Fountains to associate myself to that holy brotherhood, I was, as I remember, about beginning my thirtieth year.'" the abbey at that time as he tells us in another place was five years old but he had been acquainted with the brethren before when the monks left the monastery of york i myself was present i had known their names and faces from my boyhood i was born in their country was brought up amongst them and to several of them i was related by ties of blood and although i am as thou may see far advanced in years i am very grateful to my old age that my memory remains unimpaired and particularly retentive of those things committed to it in early years such things therefore relating to the origin of the monastery of fountains which i personally witnessed or have gathered from the credible report of my elders i will now relate Serlo spent ten years at Fountains, leaving in 1147 with the colony which founded Kirkstall.

After that, the chronicler writes not from personal observation, but from near acquaintance.

There would naturally be frequent communication between the mother and the daughter house.

the benedictine abbey of st mary of york had been forsaken for the cistercian abbey of st mary of fountains but the new resolutions had not driven out of all minds a secret preference for a modicum of comfort so henry found occasion to amend the monastic ways he was a great abbot he added to the possessions of the house and carried on the construction of the buildings unhappily henry became deeply involved in the ecclesiastical politics of the time the good turstin the benefactor of the abbey had been succeeded at york by william who was accused of having obtained his preferment by bribery william had cleared himself of this charge before a competent council and had been consecrated archbishop by the direction of the pope but he had not received the pall when the pope died and eugenius a pupil of st bernard became pope in his stead bernard believed in the guilt of william he prevented the new pope from investing him with the pall bernard's representative in england was the abbot of fountains who had already made a journey to rome to protest against william's appointment when therefore this ill news came to the archbishop's friends in yorkshire and they had looked about for somebody on whom to visit their indignation henry murdach seemed the person most eligible to that distinction so they set out a considerable company of them well armed and made their way with clamour of voices into the secluded valley and forced the monastery gates and sacked the place much they broke some they plundered and the rest they set on fire there it blazed then that great work built as they said in the sweat of their own brows in suo sudore church however escaped great injury indeed the abbot himself who was lying prostrate at the foot of the altar was not discovered being protected by the hand of god it is likely that the buildings which were thus destroyed were temporary structures for the most part made of wood whatever damage was done was speedily repaired the neighbours came in de vicinia viri fideles and the reconstruction was undertaken with such zeal that the new was better than the old then the chapter house was built and the dormitory over it down to the river and the guest house by the bridge to this time belong also the north walls of the malt house and the bake house the fire took place in eleven forty six or eleven forty seven this violence was much more disastrous to the archbishop than to the abbot for the pope deposed william and confirmed henry who was elected in his place thus the monastery lost its third abbot it is interesting to remember that william was vindicated after all when henry died in eleven fifty three a friendly pope restored the deposed archbishop to his place One of William's first acts on entering his diocese was to visit fountains, to express his contrition for the harm which his friends, without his knowledge, had committed, and to promise proper compensation.