The Charterhouse Historic Buildings & Rooms Tour
Next tour: 8 September | Starting at 11am and 2.15pm
Today
11:00
Looge / Visual Arts / The Charterhouse
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The Charterhouse
Charterhouse Square · EC1M 6AN
thecharterhouse.org/ →The Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery on Charterhouse Square, founded in 1371 on a site used as an emergency burial ground during the Black Death, later a Tudor mansion, then the almshouse and charity founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 that it remains today. Around 40 residents still live and dine communally in its 16th-century Great Hall. Its museum display, curated in partnership with the London Museum, tells the site's story from the Black Death to the present, and guided tours — led by professional guides or by resident Brothers themselves — run Tuesday to Saturday, making it as much a living community as a heritage site to visit.
Institutional · Museum
Carthusian monastic tradition · Tudor almshouse heritage · London social history · Black Death heritage site
Intellectually demanding · Contemplative
Upcoming
Tickets
The Charterhouse Brothers Tour
Next tour: 10 September | Starting at 2.15pm
Thu 10 Sept
14:15
The Thomas Sutton Lecture 2026
Friday 30 October | 6pm
Fri 30 Oct
18:00
Choral Services
Next: Monday 2 November | 5.30pm
Mon 2 Nov
17:30
Music in the Chapel
Next: Monday 2 November | 5.30pm
Mon 2 Nov
17:30
Why this place matters
Cultural lineage
Carthusian monastic tradition →
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Cultural lineage
Tudor almshouse heritage →
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London social history →
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Cultural lineage
Black Death heritage site →
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Cultural passport
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Read one enclosed site through plague, charity, worship and centuries of changing civic use.