Effects of the dissolution of the monasteries

Students can find out the fate of a selection of British monasteries, sorting them into categories and then considering what effect each of these might have had. They can search further in the Heritage Explorer image database for more examples, including any based in their own locality. They can read a contemporary story of the spoilation of Roche Abbey which describes the feelings of local people as they dismantled the church. Students can then relate their findings to the academic debate around the relative importance of the Dissolution to the social and economic problems of Tudor Britain.