After a folk music style service in the Family Life Church in Thirsk we had lunch and then set off for our last National Trust property (though it is run by English Heritage so we had to pay £3 parking!) On the walk back from church we saw some lovely knitted jubilee decorations.
Mount Grace priory was inhabited by 14 century Carthusian monks who lived in 25 individual ” cells” and we’re mainly silent and separate. Their order was named after the Chartreuse region in France. They ate no meat but did eat fish and looked generally very confortable !
The cells were fairly large and set round in a quadrangle with some decent plumbing and drainage for their toilets! There was one cell rebuilt to show how it would have been.
The house still standing was the guest house and stood in front of a beautiful garden.
