Southwark Cathedral

Southwark Cathedral or The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark, London, lies at the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge. It is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark. It has been an area of Christian worship for extra than 1,000 years, but a cathedral most effective because the advent of the diocese of Southwark in 1905. Between 1106 and 1538 it changed into the church of an Augustinian priory, Southwark Priory, dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

Following the dissolution of the monasteries, it have become a parish church, with the brand new dedication of St Saviour's. The church become inside the diocese of Winchester until 1877, whilst the parish of St Saviour's, together with other South London parishes, become transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The gift constructing keeps the primary shape of the Gothic shape constructed between 1220 and 1420, even though the nave is a late 19^th century reconstruction. The sixteenth-century London historian John Stow recorded an account of the origins of the Southwark Priory of St Mary that he had heard from Bartholomew Linsted, who have been the ultimate earlier whilst the priory become dissolved.