Tag: Henry VIII

• Saturday Snapshots of a Gateway to the Past

  Polesworth Abbey Gatehouse This gatehouse is virtually all that remains of Polesworth Abbey, and I can never pass it without thinking of the nuns who walked beneath it when the were forced to leave during the dissolution of the monasteries. For some of the women it would have been the only home they had ever…

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  June 23, 2012

  Dissoluion of the Monasteries, Henry VIII, nuns, Polesworth Abbey, Saturday Snapshots