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3. Some children may feel prompted to pray for Christians who are still suffering for
their faith.

TUDOR HOUSES

Truth to Teach (Source)

Acts 2:44-45 ‘All the believers were together and had everything in common.

Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had
need.’

 There were vast differences between the homes of the rich and the poor in Tudor

times.

 Town homes were often built upwards as three- or four-storey houses to save space.

 Many houses were timber-framed.

Way to Work (Means)

1. Review previous lessons.

2. Show pictures of Tudor towns with three- and four-storey houses packed closely
together then contrast these with the mansions and palaces the rich lived in. Show
pictures of homes in which the very poor would have survived.

Talk about the above verses, contrasting this to life in Tudor times.

3. The country homes of the rich often had wide glass windows, open courtyards and

huge gardens. They were built of stone or brick. Rich households would have carved
wooden chests, tables, chairs, stools, cupboards and four-poster beds but no electric
lights, running water or decent toilets. They used candlelight and washed in bowls
filled from jugs. The toilet was often a hole in the ground in an outside hut.

The manor houses often had dozens of bedrooms, eg Longleat House.

4. Other homes were built of timber with wattle and daub (a woven mesh of stakes and

branches daubed with mud, clay or plaster mixed with straw) or clay and rubble walls.
They had stone foundations. The frame was covered in tar to protect it. The upper
storeys of the houses overhung the lower storeys so blocking out light.

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