Mount Grace - the name

Our house was named ‘Mount Grace’ by Roger, its builder and original owner. It was named after Mount Grace Priory, a Carthusian monastery founded in Yorkshire in 1398 by Thomas de Holland, Duke of Surrey and nephew of Richard II. Unlike other monks, Carthusians lived as near-hermits, spending most of the time alone in their individual cells. Mount Grace was one of the last monasteries in Yorkshire to be suppressed, in December 1539.
 
In the 17th century the ruins of the Priory guest house were remodelled as a manor house. Roger’s father bought the manor house in 1917, and Roger was born there. Ownership carried with it the hereditary title of ‘Lord of the Manor of Saveneys’. Sadly, Roger’s family sold the manor house and with it the title. We still have the name, though.