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A View of the Charter House taken from the Green, 1813 In May 1611 it came into the hands of Thomas Sutton (1532–1611) of Knaith , Lincolnshire . He was appointed Master of Ordnance in Northern Parts, and acquired a fortune by the discovery of coal on two estates which he had leased near Newcastle upon Tyne , and later, upon moving to London ...
Colour engraving circa 1770 Map for fire risk, 1887. In 1371 a Carthusian monastery was founded by Walter de Manny on what is now the north side of the square. It was established near a 1348 plague pit, [1] which formed the largest mass grave in London during the Black Death, and tens of thousands of bodies were buried there.
London Charterhouse, London, England, an historic complex of buildings that originally housed a monastery, now the location of such sites as The Charterhouse Hospital; Charterhouse Square, London, England
Several gastropubs line the street, including the Fox and Anchor.The formerly-DJ Mag #1 club Fabric nightclub is located at No. 77A.Charterhouse Street is also the home of a 31 MWe combined heat and power plant operated by Citigen [1] and located within and beneath the former PLA cold store.
The Charterhouse of Parma (French: La Chartreuse de Parme) is a novel by French writer Stendhal, published in 1839. [1] Telling the story of an Italian nobleman in the Napoleonic era and later, it was admired by Balzac, Tolstoy, André Gide, Lampedusa, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway.
Also listed are ancillary establishments (distilleries, printing houses) and the "houses of refuge" used by the communities expelled from France in the early 20th century. Since the establishment of the Carthusians in 1084 there have been more than 280 monastic foundations and several more unsuccessfully attempted ones, [ 1 ] and this list aims ...
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.
The Master's House, built c. 1780. According to Tickell in The History of the Town and County of Kingston Upon Hull (1796), there was a religious house at the Charterhouse site from the time of Edward I. [2] It is certain that the land became the property of William de la Pole in the 14th century. [3]