Religious Establishments at the Dissolution

Search monasteries database

Please follow this link to access the Monastic Records at the Dissolution database.

There are many ways to use these search files. The first is the most straight-forward, setting the map-mode to browse. Using the pan and zoom capabilities, you can explore the English coverage of the time databases.

By using the zoom function, the names of individual entries will be come apparent when your map is below a mapping scale (usually 1: 1 000 000). If the name of the point is not readily visible, you may have to zoom to a greater scale.

If you change the map-mode to query, you can click near at or near your chosen data point. This will then interrogate the geographical associated with that entry and return one of a series of values for the CWA (see box) that indicate the presence or absence of bells, chimes, dials, etc. for the decades between 1500-1690s.

If you are interested in more than one entry for an area, you can alter the map-mode to nquery. These will return searches for any data points within the range of the tolerance values. The tolerance values indicated for the two interrogated layers are the range in metres from the click point on the map. Increasing these values should increase the number of results that are returned.