kirkstall abbey

OLK SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION
Please read the attached letter regarding this year’s preparation programme (click here) and contact our catechist team to register your child or for more information at:

catechist.ourladyofkirkstall@dioceseofleeds.org.uk

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IF YOU NEED A PRIEST URGENTLY FOR SOMEONE DYING

Please ring one of our priests on their mobile phones. It is vital that you let the priest know how urgent the situation is. If someone is in the final hours of their life, a priest will come immediately. If there may be a couple of days, they will make an arrangement with you. Thank you.

lineWAYS TO SUPPORT OUR PARISH

To contribute £5 to our parish offertory, you can now text Church OLK to 70500. There is no way to change the amount donated. If you are unable to contribute £5 a week, text monthly instead. Many thanks for your continued support and generosity.

Online Giving -is now up and running for all parishes and accessible through the Diocesan website at https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/supporting-your-parish/.

The Online Parish Offertory yellow box allows you to select a chosen Parish or fund from a list.This is also available via the Diocesan Website homepage.

To donate directly to OLK parish via the diocese portal press HERE

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lineThe masthead is based on this view of the parish......kirkstall abbey painting

Thomas Girtin, Kirkstall Abbey, a watercolour
Yorkshire, England, AD 1800

This watercolour is signed and dated 1800, late in Girtin's career. A ruined abbey is set in a wide valley through which the River Aire meanders. In the background are hills and clumps of trees crowned by a typical English summer sky of moody clouds. In the foreground, a few farmers go about their work. Individual elements often regarded as 'picturesque' are treated with unexpected grandeur and seriousness.
The landscape appears unconfined, with the suggestion of great distances extending both to the sides and to the far horizon. Yet the viewer is drawn to focus on the white stones of the ruined abbey and the river which bends at this point, its water lit, the left bank in shadow. This effect of light and shade (chiaroscuro) is reinforced by the clouds which are dark and light, broken up by the clear blue sky and sunlight.
Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) and J.M.W.Turner, born in the same year, knew each other well. Both artists painted fine watercolours of English cathedrals and antiquities. Between 1793 and 1795 they worked side by side, copying watercolours by John Robert Cozens, learning from his subtleties of mood and technique. Girtin toured England on sketching trips, the tones of his watercolours developing from the cool grey blues of Cozens to his won warm browns and reds. He dies at the early age of twenty-seven, described by his contemporary, Joseph Farington (1747-1821) as 'a genius'.
J. Rowlands, Master drawings and watercolou (London, The British Museum Press, 1984)
L. Stainton, British landscape watercolours (London, The British Museum Press, 1985)
D. Hill, Thomas Girtin: genius in the N (Harewood House, Leeds, 1999)

(There is no sign of Cookridge tower on top of the hill! But interestingly it depicts the area of the new parish of Our Lady of Kirkstall rising up from the Aire valley - it hasn't changed a bit!).

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