Henry VIII See of Chester

When Henry VIII ordered the dissolution of the monasteries, the monastery of St Werburgh suffered less than most, owing to Henry's decision in 1541 to subdivide the huge diocese of Lichfield, which stretched from south of Coventry to the Scottish borders, and to create a new diocese of Chester. This new diocese needed a cathedral for its bishop, and rather than build a new one it was decided to use the  old monastery church, which had been surrendered by its' last abbot, John Clarke, on the 20th January 1540. On the 26th July 1541, by order of King Henry VIII, the monastery church was reconstituted as 'the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary in Chester'. The window shown below commemorates this event, and can be seen in the Cathedral.

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