Introduction

This part of the site is designed to provide you with a brief guide to the period of change and reform which occurred in the mid-sixteenth century. It is divided into two parts:

(1) Introduction:

This part of the site will explain why Henry VIII had his eye on the Church, and what the Reformation was. It also explains what religious changes there were.

(2) Changes:

This part of the site is designed to provide you with a brief guide to the period of change which occurred between the 1530s and the seventeenth century. It will explain why the hospital was now called 'God's House', how patients were treated, and what impact Kett's rebellion (1549) had upon the fabric.