#charterhouse

[escapismsworld]

📍Charterhouse of Santa María de la Defensión, Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain

[fedrrri]

La Certosa di Firenze

10/10/2024

[madamelesfressange]

Tabernacle of the Charterhouse of Granada

[theworldatwar]

A passerby examines a crashed Heinkel He IIIP, IG+NT, of III/KG27, shot down by Blue Section of 92 squadron RAF at 6pm on 14th August 1940 lying by the side of the road at Charterhouse, Somerset.

[ctyguidelondon]

The beautiful old Charterhouse is tucked away in a spot where no tourist ever goes – a few minutes north of Smithfield Market. I don’t think many Londoners even know that it exists. It’s like a cross between a Cambridge college and the cloisters at Westminster Abbey. One of the cobbled courtyards reminds me of all those dirty black bricks and muddy-coloured roof tiles you find at Hampton Court. If you're a fan of Downton Abbey then you might recognise a few of its buildings from there.

[londiniumlundene]

Florin Court

Located on Charterhouse Square in Smithfield, Florin Court is a wonderful example of an Art Deco block of flats. Built in 1936, it has a distinctive curved façade overlooking the square. When it first opened to residents, there was a porter, a public restaurant, cocktail bar, and clubroom, all now gone – though the basement swimming pool and roof garden survive to this day.

The building is probably most famous for playing the part of Whitehaven Mansions in the television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot, with both exterior and interior shots being used to portray the home of the Belgian detective and his little grey cells. Curiously though, the building’s external and internal layouts are probably nowhere near as symmetrical as Poirot would have liked – no doubt a cunningly concealed secret by the show’s producers during the 24 years it featured.

[arianeka]

Calci. | instagram

[georgehoney]

Žiče Charterhouse The birth of the Žiče Carthusian Monastery coincides with the time when Styria became a duchy. The founder of the monastery is Otokar III. Traungau, the Styrian border count  and his son, the first Duke of Styria, Otokar IV or. I, who owned territories in Slovenian Styria from 1147, when they inherited the land from Bernard Spanheim. Two legends emerged when the Carthusian Monastery was created. The first is that Otokar III. went hunting with the German Prince Konrad III. After a while Otokar departed from the group. The Count decided to rest under a nearby tree, where  John the Baptist revealed himself, and told him to build a monastery at the place where he was resting. Otokar was awakened by a hunter who exclaimed Seitz on! Seitz, which served as the inspiration for naming Seitz. According to another legend, Otokar was supposed to have build the monastery in a different place, but again John the Baptist appeared to him. Count asked Pope Alexander III. for monks from the Great Carthusian Monastery.