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a medieval map on parchment from a birds-eye perspective of the Charterhouse and the surrounding area
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Rare Survivors: Engineering a Water Supply for the London Charterhouse

The Charterhouse Water Maps are four illustrated manuscripts that depict the water system that was built c.1450 to provide...

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A Visit to the Hull Charterhouse
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1st April 2016

A Visit to the Hull Charterhouse

The word Charterhouse, meaning a Carthusian monastery, is derived from La Grande Chartreuse, the first hermitage of the Carthusian Order founded by Saint Bruno. There were ten Charterhouses in the Britain...

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Charles Dalmon, Poet and Brother
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16th June 2015

Charles Dalmon, Poet and Brother

Charles William Dalmon (1862-1938) was a British poet who, in retirement, became a Brother of the Charterhouse. He published many poems during his lifetime, many of them about Sussex, the county in which...

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