Southwark No. 5 / Southwerk / Sudgeweork / Sudwerca / Sudwerche / Suthringa geweorc / Suthwerk / Suwerc

The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 4, 1912) notes: "The church stands on the west side of the Borough, immediately to the south of London Bridge. Although there appears to have been a religious house on this site from a remote period, the first certain statement that can be made with regard to the present church is that in 1106 William Pont de l'Arche and William Dauncey refounded the priory for canons regular of the Augustinian order and that Bishop Giffard was associated with them, building the nave after 1107, when he returned from exile. Of this early work there are a few remnants [...] In 1207 the church was almost wholly destroyed by fire." The church was re-built and later remodelled through the centuries; the VCH mentions no font in it. There is no mention of a font here in Edward Walford, 'Southwark: St Saviour's Church', in Old and New London: Volume 6 (London, 1878), pp. 16-29 [www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp16-29] [accessed 14 March 2016].