Although the reasons for and the process of dissolution in Peterborough Abbey compare closely to all other religious houses, the consequences were unique. Peterborough received favourable treatment and so emerged from the dissolution as one of six abbeys to be transformed into new cathedrals. The changes imposed on Peterborough were less disruptive in terms of architectural modifications, the religious community, economic sanctions and material confiscations. In April 1536, there were more than eight hundred monasteries, abbeys, nunneries and friaries that were home to more than ten thousand religious but by April 1540 there were none left. The experience of Peterborough Abbey varies from most...