There were around 8000parish churches, which were central to society. Alongside their guilds and confraternities they were responsible for festivals, entertainment and charity as well as religious services.
Church administration ran through 2 provinces, each headed by an Archbishop and 17 dioceses headed by a bishop.
church tasks included Pilgrimage, Rogationtide, schools, almshouses and more.
Margaret Beaufort showed her piety by setting up a College at Cambridge University.
1% of adult males were monks
Benedictine houses were large and often doubled as cathedral churches.
Friars were often recruited from lower classes and some groups included the Dominicans, Franciscans and Augustinians.
Nunneries were less prestigious but a notable exception was the Bridgettine foundation.
Lollards were a small minority but existed. Anticlericalism was rare.
Under Henry VII, humanism had very little impact, but William Grocyn became a lecturer at Oxford.
53 Grammar schools were built between 1460 and 1509.
Plays were often performed at church festivals and had moral or religious messages.
In terms of music, the best surviving source is the Eton Choir Book.Browne received patronage from the Earl of Oxford and Fayrfax from Margaret Beauford.
The most popular architecture style was Gothic perpendicular such as the Lady Chapel commissioned by Henry VII at Westminster.
Chivalric or Saints' were popular such as the Canterbury tales. They were printed by William Caxton but eventually humanist literature became more popular.