Charterhouse School, Private boarding school in Godalming, England
Charterhouse School stands on a hilltop site outside Godalming, its main buildings designed by Philip Charles Hardwick and built by Lucas Brothers in tan and grey rubble masonry. Steep red and grey tiled roofs, forward-facing gables and a square tower with a pyramidal roof and weathervane rise above lawns and a low stone wall, with ivy on the tower.
Thomas Sutton endowed a chapel, almshouse and school on the site of the London Charterhouse in 1611, providing for eighty pensioners and forty boys. The school moved to a 68-acre hilltop site outside Godalming in 1872 under headmaster William Haig Brown, after the Clarendon Commission of 1864 and the Charterhouse School Act 1867. Architect Philip Charles Hardwick designed the main buildings, erected by Lucas Brothers.
The campus follows the British boarding school system with dormitories, common rooms and dining halls for student daily life. The fifteen houses wear their own colors and organize competitions in music, theater and different sports throughout the school year.
The campus sits around 30 miles (50 kilometers) southwest of London and is surrounded by hills and wooded areas. Buildings are usually not open to the public except during special events or by prior arrangement.
Students and teachers from the institution contributed to developing the first uniform rules for football in the 1860s. This work happened in cooperation with other schools and helped shape the modern sport.
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