Thetford Priory

Thetford Priory serves as the Howard family's ancestral burial ground, where Norfolk's father and forebears rest in stone tombs amid cloistered silence. Cromwell shuts it down during the Dissolutions, stripping the site of monks and rites. Norfolk hurls this desecration at him in fury, the violated priory fueling accusations of grave disrespect to noble lineage and feudal piety. Shadows of dissolution hang over its weathered arches, turning sacred earth into a symbol of reformist assault on ancient privilege.