3-046-984 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New Charterhouse School buildings at Godalming, 1872. 'The removal of the Charterhouse School from its old site in Charterhouse-square...to the healthy rural neighbourhood of Godalming, thirty-four miles south of London, is a very beneficial change...The site of the new school buildings, which have been constructed after the designs of the architect, Mr. Philip Hardwick, is upon the high ground a mile north-west of Godalming...surrounded by pleasant woodlands. The buildings consist of an irregular group of two quadrangles or courts, with hall and chapel, and school and lecture rooms en suite. They are in the Gothic style of the fourteenth century, with high-pitched roofs, and lofty towers at the centre and principal angles...It is understood that before long separate buildings will be erected as workshops, laboratories, and laundries...On the south side of the buildings runs a terrace, beyond which about seven acres of what two years ago was a thick copse of oaks and hazel trees have been levelled and formed into a cricket-ground...The stones, and beams or planks of wood, on which former Charterhouse schoolboys have cut their names, are carefully preserved, having been fixed up in the corridors of the new building'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.