Qualla: Charterhouse School https://qualla.com/charterhouse-school en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/e/charterhouse-school-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Charterhouse School https://qualla.com/charterhouse-school Charterhouse School: Introduction https://qualla.com/charterhouse-school/ Photo credit Grayswoodsurrey, CC BY-SA 4.0. In May 1611, a wealthy bachelor named Thomas Sutton bought the London Charterhouse - the dissolved Carthusian monastery near Smithfield - and announced he would turn it into a charitable foundation. He had made his money on coal seams discovered near Newcastle. Seven months later he was dead, his will under attack from would-be heirs. The will held. By the next year the foundation was open: eighty old gentlemen given a home, forty boys given an education. Four centuries later, those forty boys have multiplied into a school of more than a thousand on a Surrey hill - and football, as the world plays it, came from those cloisters.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/e/charterhouse-school-wp/gcpe-charterhouse-school-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Charterhouse School: Sutton's Bequest https://qualla.com/charterhouse-school/ Photo credit Mark Dunn, CC BY-SA 2.0. Thomas Sutton was born in Knaith, Lincolnshire, in 1532. He leased two estates near Newcastle upon Tyne and discovered coal underneath them - a windfall that made him one of the richest commoners in England. He moved to London, prospered further in trade, and in May 1611 acquired...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/e/charterhouse-school-wp/gcpe-charterhouse-school-suttons-bequest.mp3 0:06 2 full Charterhouse School: Move to the Hill https://qualla.com/charterhouse-school/ Photo credit Tinyguy, Public domain. By the 1860s Sutton's foundation had outgrown the city. The Clarendon Commission of 1864, set up to investigate the nine great English public schools, reported on conditions, and in 1872 headmaster William Haig Brown moved the school out of Smithfield to a sixty-eight-acre site o...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/e/charterhouse-school-wp/gcpe-charterhouse-school-move-to-the-hill.mp3 0:06 3 full Charterhouse School: How Football Got Its Pass https://qualla.com/charterhouse-school/ Photo credit Mertbiol, CC0. In the 1840s, Charterhouse boys had nowhere to play football except the cloisters of the old London buildings. So did the boys at Westminster. Cloister football could not be the rough, handling game developing at Rugby and elsewhere; it had to be controlled, played close to the g...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/e/charterhouse-school-wp/gcpe-charterhouse-school-how-football-got-its-pass.mp3 0:06 4 full Charterhouse School: Memorial Stone and Telephone Box https://qualla.com/charterhouse-school/ Photo credit David Young Cameron, Public domain. The First World War took almost seven hundred Old Carthusians. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott - the architect best known for designing the red telephone box - was commissioned to build a new memorial chapel, consecrated in 1927, that remains the largest war memorial in England. Around t...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/e/charterhouse-school-wp/gcpe-charterhouse-school-memorial-stone-and-telephone-box.mp3 0:06 5 full Charterhouse School: An Honest Reckoning https://qualla.com/charterhouse-school/ Photo credit Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0. Excellence and discomfort have lived side by side here. Roy Hattersley, who visited for the Guardian in 2007, called the school "academically and pastorally, near to beyond criticism" while also concluding that his ambition to abolish private education in the 1970s remained "tota...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/e/charterhouse-school-wp/gcpe-charterhouse-school-an-honest-reckoning.mp3 0:06 6 full Charterhouse School: Carthusians, New and Old https://qualla.com/charterhouse-school/ Photo credit Mertbiol, CC0. Charterhouse began accepting girls into the sixth form in 1971, then announced in 2017 that it would go fully co-educational from age thirteen. The first Year 9 girls arrived in September 2021. By September 2023 there were girls in every year group. Weekites, once a boys' house, ...

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