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The dissolution of the monasteries: mindless violence or planned precision? The dissolution of the monasteries has long been cast as an orgy of mindless violence unleashed by a hot-headed Henry VIII. Yet this was a precision-planned operation, writes Hugh Willmott, and wanton destruction wasn’t its primary aim Published: February 1, 2021 at 1:27 pm The dissolution of the monasteries was the greatest single act of vandalism in English, and perhaps European history,” undertaken by “a grasping and tyrannical king, and effected through… ruthless, cynical and philistine men.” So wrote the architectural historian Sir Howard Colvin in an essay on the topic in 1999. ....
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This Grade II-listed farmhouse in Ringmer near Lewes has recently gone on sale for £2.5 million. Clayhill House was built in the mid 16th Century by William Newton, who also built the grand Southover Grange in Lewes. Photos: Zoopla Newton had moved from Cheshire in 1544 and lived at Lewes Priory, leased at the time by King Henry VIII’s fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. He built Clayhill House for his second son with a timber frame, brick and a clay roof. The seven-bedroom home comes with several outbuildings including a Sussex Barn, a former milking parlour and cow sheds, a separate granary, a cart shed and an open garage. ....