• Coventry’s medieval Charterhouse opens to public after 11-year rescue effort

    Coventry’s medieval Charterhouse opens to public after 11-year rescue effort
    City residents raised £10m to prevent the Carthusian monastery being sold for commercial useIt was 11 years ago when Ian Harrabin, a property developer from Coventry, saw the city’s Charterhouse had been put up for sale. Dating from 1381, it is the only Carthusian monastery in the country with surviving interiors, and had been used as college classrooms for decades.“It was almost unknown in the city. It was gifted to the people of Coventry in 1940, but the general public didn&r

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