Talk:London Charterhouse

Too much Levett? Eee!

I like the extra work that has been done on medicine here:

Charterhouse early established a reputation for excellence in hospital care and treatment, thanks in part to Henry Levett, M.D., an Oxford graduate who joined the school as physician in 1712. Levett was widely esteemed for his medical writings, including an early tract on the treatment of smallpox. He also rebuilt at his own expense the school's physician's home. Levett was buried in Charterhouse Chapel at the foot of the altar with an inscription in Latin and his coat-of-arms over the tomb.[2] (Levett was the son of William Levett of Swindon, Wiltshire, who was groom of the bedchamber to King Charles I.)[3] Levett's widow remarried Andrew Tooke, the master of Charterhouse.

However, I cannot help but think that there is too much detail here about Levett, not all of which is really about the Charterhouse. All of this material is also covered just one click away at Henry Levett. As a minimum I wonder whether we should not omit the sentence in parentheses, and perhaps the last sentence, about the widow. A more drastic edit might be to stop this paragraph after "1712" since again you can read all about Henry in his own article.

I know these "what should be where and how much duplication is good?" things can be tricky so I am not making any radical edits right now, but I would be very interested to hear the views of others. Thanks. 138.37.199.206 (talk) 16:36, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

I think you're right. Now that the Henry has his own page, I'll take some of the Levett stuff here and move it over to Henry, and then his part of Charterhouse can be edited down. (May be a couple of days before I can get to it.) Thanks for the wise suggestion. Regards,MarmadukePercy (talk) 21:59, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! I'll look forward to seeing the next edit. Cheers, 138.37.199.206 (talk) 08:31, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

New sketches of London Charterhouse and historical information in Wikimedia Commons.

I recently added nineteen new historical images of the London Charterhouse to the Commons. They are pen and ink sketches from the public domain work Charterhouse, 1611-1895: In Pen and Ink by Charles Barrett (published in 1895) and is available at the Internet Archive. For each sketch I included in the wikimedia commons description direct quotes which are the captions for each sketch. E.g.,

"Here at the Chapel door lies buried, among others, Dr. Crusius, Schoolmaster in 1748. On the wall, hard by, are the modern tablets erected to the memory of Thackeray and Leech. Facing the Chapel door, and occupying the entire wall space, is a large memorial to Havelock. The Ante-Chapel, just within the door, dates from 1512, and has a groined roof."

Interested editors might find some useful information for expanding the existing article from the Barrett work, or at least from the captions to the sketches I extracted from that work. -Quartermaster (talk) 17:10, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

It might help if I give a direct link to the Commons category and a link to the Internet Archive copy of the Barrett work. -Quartermaster (talk) 17:13, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Great Chamber

Although Hobo389 clearly has some lessons to learn about edit summaries and edit warring, he/she is in fact quite correct: the fourth image in the article, despite a misleading flename, is of the Great Chamber (a first-floor room with a distinctive decorated plaster ceiling), which is completely different to the Great Hall (an open hall with a hammer-beam roof). See here, and here, and multiple print sources. I will amend the caption accordingly. GrindtXX (talk) 23:33, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Referencing

I would like to undertake a bit of an expansion to this. Would there by any objection to my converting the referencing to sfn? KJP1 (talk) 10:01, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Fine with me, so long as any additions are fully referenced. Thanks, Dormskirk (talk) 17:17, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Absolutely! Many thanks. KJP1 (talk) 07:28, 22 August 2019 (UTC)