Mount Grace Priory by Fred255

Photography • Historical • posted on Jun 08, 2007

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Mount Grace Priory is the best preserved and most accessible of the ten Carthusian charterhouses in England. Founded in 1398, it was the last monastery established in Yorkshire before the Reformation, and an expression of the fashion for piety and strict living of the time. Unlike other monks, who lived in common, the Carthusians lived as hermits, each occupying his own cell (more like a small house), and coming together rarely in the chapel for certain prayers. The priory was closed in 1539 during the dissolution of the monasteries (by Henry VIII of England). The ruins of its guest-house were incorporated into two later houses: a seventeenth-century manor - a rare building of the Commonwealth period - and the larger house of the 1900-01, an important example of the Arts and Crafts movement. The property is now under the care of English Heritage.

Comments (11)

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fredster66

3:51AM | Fri, 08 June 2007

Amazing architecture... nicely framed and presented!

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athesdan

3:53AM | Fri, 08 June 2007

superb shot ! the contrast is excellent between the green and the monasteri

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alhak

4:11AM | Fri, 08 June 2007

wonderful shot

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auntietk

8:12AM | Fri, 08 June 2007

I wonder what the architect and the builder would think if they could see how long their work has lasted and how beautiful it is as it's crumbling away. The lines of this building are breathtaking! Awesome image.

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