Abstract
Throughout Europe a little sculpture survives at most if not all Cistercian abbeys. It can be grouped into three kinds: abstract patterns particularly interlace; foliage designs; human and animal motifs. Kirkstall Abbey, which has Yorkshire’s best-preserved Cistercian abbey church, employs all three kinds in an individual scheme dating from the time of Abbot Alexander (d. 1182). It is suggested that the sculpture at Kirkstall Abbey was intended to make a contribution to community life and could have been inspired in part by the Benedictine Rule. Sculpture at Elland parish church derived in treatment from that at the abbey.
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