Sometime around 1593, William Claxton (d. 1597) gathered memories of Durham cathedral in a scroll. Although he titled it Discription or Breef Declaracion of all the Auncyent Monuments, Rytes and Customs Belonging or Beinge within the Monasticall Church of Durham before the Suppression, it has come to be known as The Rites of Durham, reflecting its primary interest for scholars. It is one of the earliest testimonies to the conceptual shift Evangelicals effected. Individuals remembered specific altars, windows, chapels – discrete things. The “church” had become a box containing objects and dead bodies, within which the faithful gathered. It was no longer a place of worship. It was no longer a made world. In Part II, we turn to the acts that sundered. Here let me simply underline, Evangelicals did not simply recast altarpieces and eternal lamps as mere matter, “objects.” They tore apart the fabric of what Durand and medieval European Christians understood ecclesia to be. Far more than altar or vestment, the word – ecclesia, iglesia, église, Kirche, kerk, kirk, church – altered irrevocably in its content in the sixteenth century.