"In England, we still like to talk about the 'dissolution' of the monasteries as if it was a gentle process. Really, it was an annihilation," says Bendor Grosvenor ...

The resulting break with Rome also led to the closing of hundreds of religious houses, known as the dissolution of the monasteries. Between 1536 and 1540 Cromwell presided over the dissolution of ...

The former monastery was founded in 1381 and is home to a well preserved collection of 15th and 16th Century wall paintings .