MOUNT GRACE PRIORY: EXCAVATIONS OF 1957-1992
By Glynn Coppack
Synopsis
Owned by the National Trust and managed by English Heritage, Mount Grace Priory in North Yorkshire, established in 1398 and suppressed in 1539, was one of only nine successful Carthusian monasteries in England and one of the best-preserved medieval houses of that order in Europe. First excavated by Sir William St John Hope in 1896-1900 and in state guardianship since 1955 it is acknowledged as a type site for late-medieval Carthusian monasteries. The modern study of Mount Grace began in 1957 when Hope’s interpretation of the monks’ cells about the great cloister was found to be simplistic and so further excavations were carried out over the next thirty years.
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| Narrator | Elizabeth Goodrich |
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| Length | 25hrs 30mins |
| Catalogue No. | 16732 |
| Publisher | Oxbow books; 2019 |