The warming room was located on the S range of the cloister. Because of the many changes in function in this area, little material from the Romanesque period remains in the interior of the warming room. The brick surface indicates a fireplace probably of a later period. A plain round-headed alcove is designated ‘towel cupboard’ and given a late 12thc date by Hope and Bilson (1907); this was also the area of the 13thc lavatorium, which replaced a free-standing wash-basin in the SE corner of the cloister. Surviving Romanesque sculpture is limited to two corbels on the N wall.

For History, Comments and full Bibliography, see report Kirkstall Abbey: 01 Church.