Where is the charterhouse coventry

The building itself is set to fully reopen as a visitor attraction later this summer. Sign up for regular email updates about Coventry UK City of Culture events, news and ticket offers. If your browser doesn't support pop-ups, click here to sign up. Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed onto your device by some websites that you visit.

They are widely used to allow a website to function as well to provide us, the website operators with information on how the site is being used, and most importantly, how we can improve our site for our users. Click to show the search box. Stay in touch. The Charterhouse is a grade I listed fourteenth century Carthusian Monastery, one of only nine ever built in Britain. It is the only Carthusian Monastery in the UK to have survived with intact internal features, including an internationally significant early fifteenth century wallpainting of Christ on the cross.

In the s the estate was leased by John Whittingham and used as one of the leading garden nurseries of the age. Charterhouse is a grade I listed 14th Century Carthusian Monastery, one of only nine ever built in Britain. The Carthusian order was a silent order. Sadly it suffered at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries when the Chapel and other religious buildings were destroyed and used as building materials.

From Whitefriars follow London Road south-east. After two blocks you come to playing fields, with a lane to your left leading towards the River Sherbourne. As you follow the lane you can see Charterhouse across the river surrounded by fields There is an information panel by the river, explaining the history of the site and the story of the lost medieval village of Bisseley.

Closer to Charterhouse itself is another sign, telling the history of Charterhouse. Even if the property is closed you can still wander the grounds and get a good look at the building exterior. From the monastic buildings, a trail leads back north through the estate, where you can get a very good look at the medieval boundary wall. Most photos are available for licensing, please contact Britain Express image library.

Parking on site. Access to the grounds at any time. Easily reached on foot from the cathedral quarter. Heritage Rated from 1- 5 low to exceptional on historic interest. Coventry, Whitefriars Friary - 0.

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