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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Chapter Houses in Europe often have altars, for example in an eastern chapel (two examples, collegiate Roncesvalles, now in northern Spain; Fransiscan Santa Croce, Florence). But this never happens in England, and I've often wondered why. So very interested in any further examples from English contexts. Jon Web: http://joncannon.wordpress.com (blog and main website) http://joncannonschurches.wordpress.com (subsidiary blog) > Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 21:34:28 +0000 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [M-R] Carthusian chapter houses > To: [log in to unmask] > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Looking at the groundplans of some English Charterhouses recently, I > noticed that the chapter house adjoined the presbytery of the chapel, > and had an altar marked (and I vaguely remember an altar in the chapter > house at Parkminster.) Does anyone know the reason for this? And were > the Carthusians unique in having altars in their chapter houses? > > John Briggs > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html