Mount Grace Priory has a reconstructed cell which was quite fascinating as it was so big! I always thought of Monks cells as little rooms in a dormitory with a bed and washbowl and that’s about it. Maybe other types of Monks did but Carthusian Monks lived a very solitary existence as their whole purpose was total withdrawal from the world to serve god by personal devotion and privation. Food and drink were brought to them by lay brothers and passed through a hatch beside the door, without any communication. The cell was rebuilt by Sir Lothian Bell between 1901 & 1905, then refurbished by English Heritage in the late 1980’s, the garden & galleries based on archaeological evidence and plants available in 16th century. It’s furnishings are based on Carthusian illustrations made at the time, or surviving examples. Documents and excavations show the trades the monks followed, there is evidence of a weaver, bookbinder and book copyists.
The cell provided for all their needs, had space to meditate, read & work.
A place for manual work is upstairs,
and also a garden to tend.
That’ll do for today’s post, more from The Priory next time 🙂
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fraggle ~ rocking a camera across the Universe 
Beautiful work of preservation, and an excellent documentation of it with your photography 🙂
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Thanks Francis, I guess one day in the future this will eventually fall down. Not yet though so glad to document It now.
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Amazing shots Fraggy , I’m always in awe of these guys . There’s s cloister not to far from here , one day I’ll make the trip . Anyway they make and sell bread . I can’t imagine either of us ever being z monk , not in an earlier life or the next.. Can you imagine never talking to a living soul ?;)
Well those are my thoughts ;))
Awesome work as always !! Try’s ❤️Have a nice Sunday , it’s freezing and wet here
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sunny and windy here, I could imagine living for free in a nice little house and having my food brought to me lol, so long as I had the internet & a camera haha
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I would like if food and drink were brought to me, I think we can leave the hatch and no communication. But otherwise! As always a very inspiring post and excellent photos. Thanks for sharing. PS: just read your comment about internet and camera. I think you are absolutely right. We have to make sure that we have high speed internet and access to the newest Fuji lenses released. Next PS: Firmware 4.0 is released tomorrow morning at 5:00 am. A must have! 3 new AF features for our X.
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ooh thanks how do I not know that!!?
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you’ll get a new camera tomorrow. This is a massive upgrade of features. Check out in Google: Fuji X-T1 – Firmware 4.0. I am very excited to install the firmware tomorrow. Nice evening. Reinhold
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will have to wait til I come home from work 😦 you too with the nice evening 🙂
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The light on the spinning wheel is marvellous!
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thanks!
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All the photos are great, but the spinning wheel is my favorite as well. Was it sunny outside when you took these photos? I can’t imagine that the lighting would be so warm if it was overcast outside (or did you adjust the white balance)? Just curious 🙂
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a mixed day Melissa, quite cloudy and overcast a lot of the time, but outbreaks of sunshine. I think I put a warming filter on the shots so yes the WB would change for that.
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Thanks for the information 🙂
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The more monks the better 🙂
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