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A Reconstructed Cell
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Mount Grace Priory is the best preserved of the ten medieval Carthusian houses (charterhouses) in England. It was the last monastery established in Yorkshire (founded in 1398). Mount Grace Priory consisted of a church and two cloisters. Unlike monks of other orders the Carthusians live as hermits, each occupying his own cell (more like a small house), and only coming together for the nocturnal liturgical hours and on Sundays and feast-days. The layout of the whole monastery is still visible and the site includes one reconstructed monk's cell. The northern cloister had sixteen cells whilst the southern had five cells, a Frater, the Prior's house and the Chapter House. 
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