The Charterhouse Coventry Preservation Trust has appointed a team led by PCPT Architects to consider the future of the Grade I listed Carthusian Monastery (Charterhouse) on the London Road in Coventry.
The site had been used by the local college but became superfluous to needs; it was being offered for sale but PCPT have been able to help the community prepare proposals such that the site has been have been acquired by the trust and a grant from the Architectural Fund secured to start to look at the future opportunities.
A Charterhouse was a closed community with hermits dedicated to prayers occupying two storey ‘houses’ around the cloister. Only a few Charterhouses were built outside of France and this is a unique survivor with the Prior’s House substantially intact amid extensive riverside grounds with medieval walls and much archaeological evidence.
Exciting features such as wall paintings remain and it is PCPT’s role to consider the best ways to preserve and make a sustainable future for the benefit of the community. Micro brewery anyone ……………… or maybe Coventry’s own special brand of Chartreuse!