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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

There's a decent museum in the guest house too. If you're into the Arts and Crafts movement, there's some Morris and Co. wallpaper and furniture, plus a couple of restored rooms. I liked this 14th century stone window looking into an Arts and Crafts lounge. /22

A 14th century stone window looking into an Arts and Crafts lounge.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

There's still some original red plasterwork from the 14th century in the guesthouse museum. /21

Original red-orange plaster with vertical wooden strips spaced at regular intervals to decorate the walls.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

The guest house was in better condition, mainly because Sir Lowthian Bell decided to restore it (and reconstruct the monk's cell). Here it is from the gardens. /20

Large stone building which was once the priory's guesthouse. Light brown stone, lots of mullioned, grilled windows and a red tiled roof. The gardens are in the foreground. Lots of yellow flowers I don't know the names of, sorry.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Would've been a lovely window here, once. /19

The broken remains of a stained glass window. No glass remains, only the stone arch and the edges of the carved stone frame that would have held glass.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Can't remember if this is the church or chapter house I'm standing in. /18

Broken walls of a bell tower and Carthusian charterhouse church.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Once that bell rings, you've got to go to church. A huge covered cloister once connected all those doorways and led to the church and chapterhouse and all the useful places monks had to be. /17

Large expanse of grass and in the background, the ruins of the cell doors are dotted at intervals. The sky is overcast.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Upstairs, we find the workshop! Spinning, weaving, copying books, woodwork, lots of useful activity. /16

The monk's workshop with a large spinning wheel and loom. Whitewashed stone walls, more diamond grille windows and wooden floor.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

These stairs really are steep. Believe the sign next to the fireplace. You *have* to come down backwards. I am completely serious. My feet are a UK size 5 and they barely fit on the stairs. /15

Dangerous, steep, tiny wooden staircase leading up to the monk's workshop. Dark wood paneling behind them

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Exterior view of the cell from the garden. You may notice it has more than one floor. Let's go back in and up the stairs! /14

Exterior view of the reconstructed monk's cell from the garden. Two storey stone building with small glazed windows visible through tall fronds of fennel.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

More garden! Small fruit tree and exterior view of the glazed private cloister. /13

In the garden. The private cloister with its overhanging roof can be seen from outside here. There is a small fruit tree growing in a square of grass.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

If you turn right at the entrance, a covered walkway leads to the monk's cell garden, freshwater drinking pipe and latrine (both plumbed in. Monastery plumbing was something else. I've seen the plans for London Charterhouse). /12

Shot of the covered walkway in the monk's cell garden with plants visible and outdoor light to the left.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

If you turn left at the entrance, there's a nice, glazed, private cloister looking out onto the cell garden. /11

Row of arched windows with diamond grilles looking onto a small cell garden.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Just off of this room, a narrow door leads to a place where you can rest yourself. (The Carthusian schedule is brutal.) The curtain fabric was rough and the bed was pretty solid. More of a, I *suppose* they should maybe sleep, ugh, than a place of comfort. /10

Small four poster box bed in a dimly lit room. Curtains are rough fabric, the pillow and bed are hard.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

In other corner opposite the windows and desk, there is a handy place to rest both yourself and your reading materials. /9

A wooden lectern and stool illuminated by light shining through a diamond grille window.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

In the same room, there's a desk by two windows. Lots of natural light. A peaceful place to write letters, or read, or work, or study. /8

A wooden desk and chair set in the corner of a wooden floored room. Two diamond-grille windows admit light into the room.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

That was for illustrative purpose. Back inside, now! Straight ahead is the living quarters. The fireplace in this cell is smaller than the one found in the sacrist's cell. (The sacrist had rank and more responsibility and maybe one of the few perks was a larger fireplace). /7

Small, rectangular stone fireplace set in a whitewashed stone wall. A sign, top right, warns: steep stairs!

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Laybrothers cooked, were responsible for upkeep and general day-to-day activities under the watch of the Procurator. (Laybrothering was a prestigious position. Bishops retired to take up the job.) Among other jobs, they delivered food into hatches like this so the monks wouldn't have to interact /6

Cell doorway with hatch to deliver food. Hatch is 90 degrees. One part was outside the door, the other part was inside the door. This enabled monks to take food without interacting.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Entering the reconstructed monk's cell. /5

Sturdy wooden door with iron ring handle and rivets. Dimly lit corridor leading to a covered walkway in background.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

View of the church with its bell tower and some cells in the background. This is the first thing you see when you enter through the guest house into the priory grounds. (I might call it a charterhouse sometimes. I'm more used to that.) /4

Ruins of Mount Grace Priory, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, England. View of the church, chapterhouse and some cells in the background. Sky is overcast.

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t.h. dray ♠️ @thdray.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

An Archive of Bad Selfies with Other People's Pets: #1 Corrie the Westie

A bad selfie of a woman's head half-hidden behind a lovely west-highland white terrier whose dark eyes and nose and white hair take up most of the photo

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