Between 1536 and 1540 every religious house in England and Wales was closed, some eight hundred of them, their communities pensioned or dispersed, their buildings stripped of lead and stone, and their lands taken into the crown and then sold. The sales are what made the change permanent: a very large part of the gentry now held former monastic property, and any restoration of the old order would have required them to give it back.
Shrines went with the houses. The shrine of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, one of the great pilgrimage destinations of Europe, was destroyed in 1538 and Becket's name was ordered erased from service books. In the same period an English Bible was set up in every parish church by royal injunction, an act firmly on the reforming side of the argument.
Yet the doctrine did not move with the jurisdiction. The Act of Six Articles of 1539 reaffirmed transubstantiation, communion in one kind for the laity, clerical celibacy, the binding force of vows of chastity, private masses and auricular confession, with severe penalties for denial. In the years that followed, men were burned for denying the mass and others were executed for denying the royal supremacy, sometimes on the same day.
The result at his death in 1547 was a national church, catholic in most of its worship and belief, with the king in the place of the pope. The doctrinal reformation came afterwards, under his son.