Hull No. 5 / Kings-town upon Hull / Kingston-upon-Hull / Kingston upon Hull / Wyke on Hull

The entry for this Carthusian monks priory in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) informs that after several failed attempts to establish a religious house there since the time of Edward I [r. 1272-1307] by Friars Minor, Poor Clares, etc., "Michael de la Pole, obtained from Edward III [...] power to alter the scheme, and in place of the nuns of the order of St. Clare to found a monastery for thirteen monks of the Carthusian order, one of whom was to be prior, and besides this, as originally proposed, there were to be thirteen poor men and thirteen poor women, one of the former of whom was to be master; the prior and monks and the master and the poor folk might live together, or separately, according to the ordinance which Michael de la Pole, or his heirs or executors, should determine. In consequence of this latter provision, although the Charterhouse and the hospital were more or less distinct there was a close connexion between them, the prior of the monastery was given a certain authority over the affairs of the hospital, and it was commonly known as the Charterhouse Hospital. By charter dated 18 February 1378 [...] Michael de la Pole founded in his messuage outside the walls of Kingston-upon-Hull a religious house for thirteen monks of the Carthusian order, to the honour of God, the glorious Blessed Virgin Mary His Mother, the Blessed Michael archangel, and all archangels, angels, and holy spirits, and St. Thomas the Martyr, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, and other saints of God, which house he desired should be called the house of St. Michael of the Carthusian order." The priory was dissolved in 1539 and the priory is believed to have been destroyed before the 1643 siege of Hull. A new Charterhouse was built in 1645 and its replacement in 1780, the latter surviving until the present [2019] funtioning as an almshouse with a chapel.