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Scene Description: Source caption: "Detail from en:Image:Panorama of London by Claes Van Visscher, 1616.jpg, made in 1616 by Claes Van Visscher. It shows Old London Bridge in 1616, with Southwark Cathedral in the foreground. The spiked heads of executed criminals can be seen above the Southwark gatehouse." [NB: "This file has been extracted from another file: Panorama of London by Claes Van Visscher, 1616.jpg"]

Image Source: detail from a 1616 engraving by Claes van Visscher by Angr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Bridge_(1616)_by_Claes_Van_Visscher.jpg] [accessed 15 March 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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FontID: 20435SOU

Church/Chapel: Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie [formerly priory Church of St Mary Overy]

Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ

Country Name: England

Location: Greater London, South East

Directions to Site: Located N of Borough Market, on the S bank of the River Thames, by the London Bridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwark [formerly in the dioceses of Winchester and Rochester]

Historical Region: Hundred of Brixton -- formerly in Surrey

Date: ca. 1106?

Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Late Norman

Church Notes: Augustinian priory of 1106; present building 13th-15thC, with major 19thC re-building

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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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.506111, -0.089722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 30′ 22″ N, 0° 5′ 23″ W

UTM: 30U 701964 5710125

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-03-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.