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Charterhouse is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Godalming, Surrey, England. Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square , Smithfield , London, it educates over 1000 pupils, aged 13 to 18 years.
The London Charterhouse is a historic complex of buildings in Clerkenwell, London, dating to the 14th century. It occupies land to the north of Charterhouse Square , and lies within the London Borough of Islington .
Charterhouse may refer to: Charterhouse (monastery), of the Carthusian religious order; Charterhouse may also refer to: Places. The Charterhouse, Coventry, a former ...
Charterhouse Square is a garden square, a pentagonal space, in Farringdon, in the London Borough of Islington, and close to the former Smithfield Meat Market. The square is the largest courtyard or yard associated with the London Charterhouse , mostly formed of Tudor and Stuart architecture restored after the London Blitz .
A charterhouse (French: chartreuse; German: Kartause; Italian: certosa; Portuguese: cartuxa; Spanish: cartuja) is a monastery of Carthusian monks. The English word is derived by phono-semantic matching from the French word chartreuse [ 1 ] and it is therefore sometimes misunderstood to indicate that the houses were created by charter , a grant ...
Montalegre Charterhouse (Cartoixa Santa-Maria de Montalegre), Tiana near Barcelona (extant; canonesses regular to 1362, charterhouse 1415–1808, 1814–1820, ...
Roman lead mines at Charterhouse. There is evidence, in the form of burials in local caves, of human occupation since the late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age. [5] A 2024 study of bones from a mass grave found in caves at Charthouse Warren in the 1970s suggests that 37 people were massacred in a violent cannibalistic event occurring between 2200-2000 BC.
Perth Charterhouse or Perth Priory, known in Latin as Domus Vallis Virtutis ("House of the Valley of Virtue"), [1] was a monastic house of Carthusian monks based at Perth, Scotland. It was the only Carthusian house ever to be established in the Kingdom of Scotland , and one of the last non-mendicant houses to be founded in the kingdom.