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The Tudor-Elizabethan Period
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, 1485-1603
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Costume of the reign of Henry VIII; filming at Barton Farm, Bradford on Avon
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Following the turbulence of the Wars of the Roses, the reign of the Tudor dynasty (Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth I) brought prosperity to the Bradford Hundred, especially through the woollen cloth trade.
The period saw big changes in religion, with Protestantism replacing Catholicism and the dissolution of monasteries that saw the end of Shaftesbury Abbey and its 500 year association with Bradford and of Monkton Farleigh Priory. The redistribution of the monasteries’ lands and wealth saw the growth of a new class of landed gentry.
Unfortunately, there is little, so far, in Bradford on Avon Museum’s collection from this period, apart from some fragments of pottery.
The roof of Priory Barn in Newtown, Bradford, which was built in the reign of Henry VII
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Great Chalfield Manor House
Roof timbers of the great hall of The Priory, Bradford on Avon
The tower of Westwood’s parish church
The Church (now Freemasons’) Hall in Church Street, Bradford , before 1530
Two timber-framed houses in the Shambles, Bradford
South Wraxall Manor House has large early 16th century additions to a medieval building. Sir Walter Raleigh is reputed to have been a visitor here.
The Hall, Bradford, is a very late Elizabethan or very early Jacobean redesign and extension of a medieval hall house that was mentioned by Henry VIII’s surveyor John Leland.
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