The dissolution of the monasteries in England during the 1530s began a turbulent period of religious restructuring. Focusing on the counties of Wiltshire and Cheshire, Guinn-Chipman looks at the changing nature of religion over the next two centuries.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Dissolution and Adaptation: Religious Space in Henrician England; Chapter 2 Radicalization and Response: Religious Space in Late Henrician and Edwardian England; Chapter 3 Reframing the Parish Church in Marian and Elizabethan England: Cultural Adaptation in the Later Sixteenth Century; Chapter 4 Contesting Religious Space: Alteration and Reaction in Stuart England; Chapter 5 Epilogue: The Persistence of Memory in Early Modern England: Mapping the Past;