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Definition of Charterhouses

Charterhouse
Charterhouse Char"ter*house`, n. A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

Meaning of Charterhouses from wikipedia

- charterhouse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Charterhouse may refer to: Charterhouse (monastery), of the Carthusian religious order Charterhouse may...
- Charterhouse is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Godalming, Surrey, England. Founded by Thomas Sutton in...
- of monks or nuns (such as the Benedictines, the Cistercians, or the Charterhouses). Houses of canons & canonesses regular also use this term, the alternative...
- names were adapted to the English charterhouse, meaning a Carthusian monastery. Today, there are 23 charterhouses, 18 for monks and 5 for nuns. The alcoholic...
- the foundations of two new charterhouses, Eisenach Charterhouse in 1383 and Hildesheim Charterhouse in 1387. The charterhouse survived the Reformation but...
- May 2022[update] there are 21 extant charterhouses, 16 for monks and 5 for nuns, indicated by bold type. Aggsbach Charterhouse (Kartause Aggsbach or Kartause...
- Charterhouse Square is a garden square, a pentagonal space, in Farringdon, in the London Borough of Islington, and close to the former Smithfield Meat...
- medieval Carthusian houses (charterhouses) in England. It was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. The charterhouse was founded by Henry...
- London Charterhouse is a historic complex of buildings in Clerkenwell, London, dating to the 14th century. It occupies land to the north of Charterhouse Square...
- Under the Chatham House Rule, anyone who comes to a meeting is free to use information from the discussion, but is not allowed to reveal who made any particular...