City residents raised £10m to prevent the Carthusian monastery being sold for commercial use
, saw the city’s Charterhouse had been put up for sale. Dating from 1381, it is the only Carthusian monastery in the country with surviving interiors, and had been used as college classrooms for decades.
It will feature three floors of immersive storytelling about the building’s history, while the surrounding gardens have been restored, along with the medieval and Elizabethan paintings, which had been covered in plastic, and the site will also host a restaurant from Glynn Purnell, the chef-patron of Michelin-starred Purnell’s in Birmingham.
In a unique deal with the city council, the trust has taken guardianship of many of Coventry’s historic buildings that did not have an economic purpose and has overseen their restoration. “We seem to be very much a leader on how to make the sector economically self-sustaining and I think other heritage charities are starting to take on board what we’re doing.”
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