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The Charterhouse

Coventry, GB

The Charterhouse

Charterhouse, Coventry (also known as St. Anne's Priory, Coventry) is a grade I listed building on London Road, Coventry, in the West Midlands, England. The current building incorporates remains from the charterhouse of St Anne, a Carthusian foundation for a prior and twelve monks, as well as lay br

ethren. The charterhouse was initiated in 1381 by William la Zouche, Lord Zouche of Harringworth, Northamptonshire, on 14 acres of land obtained from Sir Baldwin Freville. The foundation stone was laid on 6 September 1385 by King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia, who took over patronage as principalis fundator. Henry VI and Henry VII also became benefactors. The charterhouse was built from local red sandstone and was completed by 1410. It contains additions from the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as three wall paintings dating to the same era. The earliest painting at the Charterhouse, dated to about 1417, depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ with the Virgin Mary and St Anne on either side and other figures nearby, including the Roman soldier Longinus and an angel collecting Christ's blood. The painting was originally in the monks refectory, with only the bottom half of the work remaining...

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