Charterhouse

As the name indicates, the lands now occupied by Charterhouse farm were once in the possession of the Carthusian monastery of Perth, the only known house of this religious order in Scotland.

The lands were granted to the monks in the early fifteenth century by Archibald, 3rd Earl of Douglas. Nineteenth-century accounts suggested that a priory once stood upon the site, but no evidence to support this possibility has been adduced. In the sixteenth century, these lands were occupied by the Pringle family.

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The priory of Charterhouse in the Parish of Mackerston which is said to have been the abode of a small society of Carthusians, possessed half of the Midtown and Mains of Sprouston.

Orig Paroch Scot 1851-5; J Morton 1832; A Jeffrey 1859.

There is a farm in the parish (Makerstown) called Charterhouse but no evidence of a Priory is forthcoming. The lands in the ph. of Sprouston were bestowed on the Charterhouse of Perth in 1433/4 and are mentioned in 1603 as "alleged holders" of the (Perth says Easson) Charterhouse. The Mains of Sprouston is specifically described in 1607 as "belonging to the priory of Charterhouse" which must mean the Perth Priory.

D E Easson 1957.

Inquiries at Charterhouse revealed no knowledge of this alleged priory or its site.

Visited by OS (WDJ), 21 September 1962.