London - Charterhouse

Charterhouse, originally a Carthusian priory, is now a home for gentlemen, who must be bachelors or widowers over the age of 60. The original charterhouse (from the French "Chartreuse") was founded in 1371 by Sir Walter de Manny, an officer in Edward III's army. After the dissolution of the priory in 1537 the property passed through various hands, including those of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (executed 1553) and Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk (executed 1572), and was finally purchased by Thomas Sutton in 1611, who then founded the Hospital and School, which became one of the country's leading public schools, and which in 1872 moved to Godalming in Surrey. The buildings, damaged in the Second World War, have since been carefully