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Publication Account
Date 1982
Event ID 1018224
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018224
Perth boasts the only Carthusian monastery founded in Scotland. Known as the 'Vale of Virtue' the monastery was built about 1429 just beyond the south-west corner of the corner near the site of the present King James VI hospital. Perhaps because the order's raison d'etre was strictly cloistered self-sufficiency, the prior and brother were free of feudal services, tolls and customs, and they were allowed to take a conduit from the lade for a water supply (Stavert, 1981, 20). Its founders, Joan of Beaufort and her consort King James I were both buried there. It was the first religious house in Perth to be destroyed by the reforming mob in May 1559.
Information from ‘Historic Perth: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1982).
