Kirkstead Abbey Ruins is a Grade I listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. Ruins.
Kirkstead Abbey Ruins
- WRENN ID
- slow-belfry-oak
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Ruins
- Address
- Kirkstead Abbey Ruins, Abbey Lane, Woodhall Spa
- OS grid reference
- TF 189 616
- Coordinates
- 53.13871, -0.22359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kirkstead Abbey is a former Cistercian Abbey church, now a ruined fragment of the southeast angle of the south transept, dating from around 1200. The structure is made of limestone ashlar. Notable features include triforium and clerestory arches, which are single splayed and round headed, with moulded imposts for the triforium and external angle shafts that have scalloped capitals for the clerestory. There is a pilaster buttress on the east side. Inside, a roll moulded string course supports a circular wall shaft that rises to a floriated capital, which in turn supports a vaulting rib. On the south side, there is a vaulting corbel for the vault to the sacristy that adjoins the transept to the cloister, located above the line of the dormitory roof. The site is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument No.6.
Local climate
Kirkstead Abbey Ruins sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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