Comments on: Hilary Haydon, Brother At The Charterhouse https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/22/hilary-haydon-brother-at-the-charterhouse/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:43:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jan Marsh https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/22/hilary-haydon-brother-at-the-charterhouse/#comment-1300484 Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:43:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175869#comment-1300484 female figures on sculpted chimneypiece represent Minerva, Juno and Venus not three graces. with Juno in maternal aspect in pride of place

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/22/hilary-haydon-brother-at-the-charterhouse/#comment-1299963 Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:20:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175869#comment-1299963 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what a beautiful life you describe for Hilary and his fellow travelers at the Charterhouse. Almost reminds me of the atmosphere in Trollope’s THE WARDEN. Particularly liked your description of their mailboxes that they are “inhabiting these ancient stone walls induces a certain philosophical perspective upon mortality, setting the span of an individual’s life against the centuries of history that have passed here”

Lovely pics too …

]]> By: Hugh Fowler https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/22/hilary-haydon-brother-at-the-charterhouse/#comment-1299915 Mon, 22 Jul 2019 05:46:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175869#comment-1299915 Those naughty 18th Century Monks came very close to facadism with that new gatehouse.

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