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The Charterhouse
A recently opened museum at London’s Charterhouse illuminates centuries of life at this former medieval monastery. Minerva's Lucia Marchini explores some of the highlights.
As a Carthusian monastery, a private mansion, a school attended by the likes of William Makepeace Thackeray, and an almshouse, the complex of buildings that make up London’s Charterhouse have had a long and varied history. It was here that Elizabeth I met with her Privy Council in 1558 in preparation for her coronation, and where her Stuart successor, James I, stayed in 1603 when he ascended the throne, holding court in the Great Chamber.
left Charterhouse Square is the final resting place of many of London’s plague dead. Walter Manny founded a Carthusian monastery at the site in 1371.
A community of some 40 brothers (as of 2016, women are not excluded by this term) live in the Ch
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