Charterhouse School
Public school in Godalming, Surrey, England

Summary
Charterhouse is a public school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the market town of Godalming, in Surrey, England. Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London, it educates over 1000 pupils. Charterhouse is one of the original nine English public schools reported upon by the Clarendon Commission in 1864 leading to its regulation by the Public Schools Act 1868.
Originally created by Oliver Pereira
2/27/2003, 1:02:35 AM
Modified
5/25/2026, 3:47:13 PM
Recent revisions
Undid previous revision (correct title is ‘Head’; Head prefers ‘Alex’ over ‘Alexander’ - indicated on ‘Head’s perspective’ page of website)
Wrong name is replaced
updated cost/revenue figures
/* History */ remove promotion
Present to past tense for 2022/23 info
Updated deputy head incumbent and title
Disambiguating links to [[House of Commons]] (link changed to [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]]) using [[User:Qwertyytrewqqwerty/DisamAssist|DisamAssist]].
Reverted edit by [[Special:Contribs/WinstonSomer|WinstonSomer]] ([[User talk:WinstonSomer|talk]]) to last version by Zhu Haifeng
The Headmaster prefers to be known as Alexander.
Added a space to separate two words.
Removed a space in a title within a citation point.
Removed a full stop (period), mistakenly inserted in a date within a citation point.
Added a word and a Wikilink..
Corrected a spelling mistake.
Rewrote a few words in the introduction, and added Wikilinks.
Added information to the Infobox, and provided citations for the References section.
Added information to the Infobox, and provided a citation for the References section.
Added information to the Infobox, and provided a citation for the References section.
/* History */ act
fixing infobox and removing [[Category:Pages using infobox school with deprecated parameters|deprecated parameters]] as part of [[Template_talk:Infobox_school#Parameter_cleanup|parameter cleanup]]; Cleaning up syntax using [[:en:User:Zackmann08/scripts/indent|indent.js]]