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Charterhouse was an extra-parochial area, an area lying outside any of the ancient parish units from which London's modern administrative units evolved through a succession of mergers. It was not included in one of the districts – groupings of civil parishes, brought together for local government purposes – under the Metropolis Management ...
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 .
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 three-story Georgian buildings that stood between 6-9 Charterhouse Square before Florin Court used to be a vicarage and a lady's school until 1859, that was later converted into a staff dormitory once purchased in 1872 by Copestake, Crampton & Co. Ltd (lace manufacturers and wholesalers located in Cheapside). [3]
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
Charterhouse Street is a street on the north side of Smithfield in the City of London The road forms part of the City’s boundary with the neighbouring London Boroughs of Islington and Camden . It connects Charterhouse Square and Holborn Circus , crossing Farringdon Road and running along a number of historical sites, including Smithfield Market.
Blessed Sebastian Newdigate, choir monk of the London Charterhouse, executed at Tyburn, London, on 19 June 1535. Blessed John Rochester, choir monk of the London Charterhouse, exiled by the government to the Charterhouse of St Michael at Hull in Yorkshire, executed at York on 11 May 1537 by being hanged in chains from the city battlements until ...
Samuel Berdmore (1739–1802), Master of Charterhouse School, 1769–1802; William Lloyd Birkbeck (1806–1888), Master of Downing College, Cambridge (1885–1888) Ronald Burrows (1867–1920), Principal of King's College London (1913–1920) Warin Foster Bushell (1885–1974), educationalist and president of the Mathematical Association