Our Old Carthusian community is invited to purchase tickets for this years’ Founder’s Day Dinner hosted in the historic setting of the London Charterhouse.
The Charterhouse is an almshouse, a community, and a heritage spot on a seven acre site in Clerkenwell, London. It has been a medieval monastery, a grand Tudor mansion, a boys’ school and an almshouse, which it remains to this day.
Thomas Sutton, who was one of the wealthiest ‘commoners’ in Jacobean England, bought the Charterhouse and founded a charity in 1611. The two objectives of the charity were to provide accommodation for up to eighty men who had “served their country well”, and to provide an education for forty poor scholars. Charterhouse School left the site in 1872, moving to our current home in Godalming. To this day, we host an annual celebration at the London Charterhouse to commemorate our founder, Thomas Sutton. The Charterhouse is steeped in layers of history and appears in the writings of Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray and John Wesley; Thackeray and Wesley both attended Charterhouse as pupils.
Old Carthusians are invited to Evensong followed by a reception in the Great Chamber and a dinner in the Great Hall. Concluding the evening with cheese and port, the School’s choir wraps up the evening with carols and a joyful rendition of the School song, Carmen Carthusianum.
To find out more and to secure your place at this year's dinner, please email
foundation@charterhouse.org.uk
