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In recent months I’ve felt like a bit of a hermit working on Rhenium Tales. So it was interesting to learn that some medieval hermits had reasonably comfortable existences. Mount Grace Priory is the best-preserved of the few Carthusian monasteries in England. It lasted from 1398 to 1539 and a reconstructed cell reveals that the monks had quite a bit of space for their withdrawal from the world. The ruins are impossibly romantic but the cell – with its enclosed garden space – gives a sense of what a contemplative life might have looked like.
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| A monk's life for me.... |
English Heritage has done a good job employing Chris Beardshaw to redesign some of the borders of the dell-like gardens with their charming rivulets and lakes. And the Arts and Crafts house has intriguing features reminiscent of an earlier elegant age. Good site to visit.
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