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15 unusual facts about English Reformation


Anglican sacraments

In keeping with its prevailing self-identity as a via media or "middle path" of Western Christianity, Anglican sacramental theology expresses elements in keeping with its status as a church in the Catholic tradition and a church of the Reformation.

Bully's Acre, Dublin

But not only paupers were buried here, as many respectable Catholic citizens made use of the land, as after the Reformation there was no official Catholic graveyard in the city.

English Reformation

Cranmer's change of mind, borne partly by his membership of the team negotiating for the annulment, finally came through his stay with Andreas Osiander in Nuremberg in 1532.

Stanford Lehmberg, The Reformation Parliament, 1529 - 1536 (Cambridge University Press, 1970).

Greater Churches Group

Several of these buildings are former monastic properties that were converted to parish church use after the English Reformation.

Howard 'Grace' Cup

Such relics of England's favourite saint were treasured until the English Reformation.

Manor of Kilmainham

After the Reformation, former lords (or chairmen, as they were later called) of this manor included Lord Cloncurry and Sir Edward Newenham.

Peas Hill

It was at St Edward's in 1525 that what is said to have been the first sermon of the English Reformation took place.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly

From the time of the English Reformation onwards, those archbishops appointed by Rome had to make their throne in whichever house in Tipperary would hide them from the forces of the crown.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tuam

The pre-Reformation diocese at various moments absorbed other local episcopal sees deriving from Celtic monastic jurisdictions.

With the English Reformation, church property was forfeited by the state and transferred to the official state religion - the Church of Ireland.

Schmalkaldic League

Many of the princes and key reformers, such as Martin Bucer, fled to England, where they directly influenced the English Reformation.

St. Audoen's Church, Dublin

In 1547 the assets of the parish were appropriated by the state church that was established following the English Reformation (more particularly the Tudor conquest of Ireland).

St. Kevin's Church, Camden Row, Dublin

After the Reformation the parish of St. Kevin was administered by the Church of Ireland; it stretched as far south as present-day Rathmines and Harold's Cross.

The Books of Homilies

Before the English Reformation, the liturgy was conducted entirely in Latin, to which the common people listened passively except twice a year during Communion, when only the consecrated bread was administered.


Anglican Diocese of Southwark

In other ecclesiatical use, although having lost religious orders in the English Reformation, the diocese has the London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury and records centre of the Church of England in the diocese, Lambeth Palace.

Bernardo Davanzati

It was a concise version of a work of Girolamo Pollini, on the English Reformation, which itself was dependent on a Latin work of 1585 written by Nicholas Sander and Edward Rishton.

Bow Church

In 1556 at Bow, during the reign of Mary I of England, and under the authority of Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, many people were brought by cart from Newgate and burned at the stake in front of Bow Church in one of the many swings of the English Reformation.

Chimere

The rubric containing this direction was added to the Book of Common Prayer in 1662; and there is proof that the development of the chimere into at least a choir vestment was subsequent to the Reformation.

Harley, Shropshire

This is the only part of the pre-Reformation church remaining, as it was mostly rebuilt in 1845-6 by a local architect Samuel Pountney Smith.

Henry, Duke of Cornwall

This theme has also been explored in some alternative history science fiction, such as Kingsley Amis' The Alteration (1976), in which another alternative history English Reformation is depicted, even without the succession crisis caused by the absence of a male heir until the birth of Edward VI to Henry and Jane Seymour.

King's Manor, Southwark

To use the post-Reformation titles of these areas we can see that by 1122 Bermondsey Abbey owned all of the so-called 'King's', 'Clink' and 'Paris Garden' manors, as well as Bermondsey and Rotherhithe.

Malmesbury Market Cross

A carving in relief of the Crucifixion (visible right of centre in the illustration) and figures of several saints have survived the Reformation on the open lantern, although the lower niches for figures are now empty.

Nicholas Harpsfield

With the more aggressive religious policies of the English Reformation following the accession of Edward VI in 1547, he left England in 1550 to pursue his studies at the University of Louvain.

St Mary the Virgin, Middleton

In 1494, a chantry chapel dedicated to St Mary the Virgin was endowed by Gilbert Leygh in Middleton It closed at the time of the Reformation.

St. Thomas' Church, Southwark

The church was renamed St Thomas the Apostle following the abolition of the Becket cult in 1538 during the Reformation.

Ugbrooke

Before the Reformation the land belonged to the Church and the house was occupied by Precentors to the Bishop of Exeter.

Walstan

Icons dating from before the English Reformation occur mostly in Norfolk and Suffolk, but in modern times his cult has extended to Buckinghamshire, Kent and - amazingly - to Rongai in Kenya, where a church was dedicated to St Walstan in 1988.