Charterhouse School

Charterhouse is a boarding and day school in Godalming, Surrey. It educates over 800 pupils, aged 13 to 18 years, and is one of the original ‘great’ nine English public schools. 

It educated the British Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and has a long list of notable alumni.

Charterhouse gives accommodation as an Almshouse to over forty single pensioners aged over sixty many of whom retain the tradition of having been “military men, schoolmasters, clergy, artists, musicians, writers and businessmen”, who are in financial, housing and social need but not in significant debt and keen to contribute to the community. Additionally it has the Queen Elizabeth II Infirmary Care Home and private tenants in 9 commercial units, 13 flats and 3 houses. The complex is open for pre-booked guided tours. The chapel can be viewed as part of the annual Open House London event. The site extends far back from the north side of the square in restored buildings and garden courtyards of the old monastery/school.

The Charterhouse Square campus of Queen Mary University of London starts at the north-east corner of the square and then spreads out; close to a café and few narrow houses fronting that side, it occupies new buildings and some of the former school buildings. It comprises student accommodation and departments of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry: Barts Cancer Institute (BCI), the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine and the William Harvey Research Institute (WHRI). The BCI and the Centre for Cancer Prevention (CCP) within the Wolfson Institute also make up the Cancer Research UK Barts Centre of Excellence, together with Barts and the London NHS Trust. In 2018, the School received a £6.5 million grant from the Barts Charity to redevelop the campus.

Address : Charterhouse Rd, Godalming GU7 2DL, United Kingdom