Charterhouse - Washhouse Court, exterior, ca.1880

From: Henry Dixon & Son

RA Collection: Art

"The first of these is on some photographs misnamed "Preacher's Court." Archdeacon Hale says: If not coeval with the building of the monastery as shown" (in the plan annexed to his paper), "it must have been a very early addition to it. Three sides of it still remain; the windows and doorways give evidence of a great variety of structure and of date, and the joints of the brickwork proofs of many alterations. There are letters on the west external wall" (No.39), "J.H., which we would willingly assume to be initials of John Houghton, the last Prior but one, and the wall itself as of his building.""

The above description, by Alfred Marks, was taken from the letterpress which accompanies the photographs.