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28 July 2024

The Yorkshire Hermit Monks – a Visit To Mount Grace Priory


In this video, I visit Mount Grace Priory in Yorkshire, a medieval monastery of the Carthusian order, now owned by the National Trust and managed by English Heritage. I explore the ruins of this monastery destroyed at the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the English Reformation. The ruins and some of the reconstructed buildings have a lot to teach us about the unusual lives of the medieval monks who lived in this remote location as hermits. There is also much to learn of the royal patrons who founded and endowed the monastery, built it, and were buried here.

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