From the Southwark Cathedral website
It is open to question when the first church was built in Southwark just south of London Bridge. A verbal tradition passed on to the Elizabethan historian John Stow suggests there was a community of nuns 'long before the [Norman] Conquest', possibly in the 7th century. There is a further suggestion that Swithun, Bishop of Winchester in the 9th century, replaced the nuns with a college of priests. The first written reference is the mention of a 'minster' in the Domesday Book (1068) although there is an ambiguous reference in the English Chronicle that suggests that the body of St Alfege lay in Southwark prior to its removal to Greenwich some 40 years earlier.
In 1106 the church was 're-founded' by two Norman knights as a priory, living according to the rule of St Augustine of Hippo, dedicated to St Mary and later known as St Mary Overy ('over the river'). Like most of the surrounding area, Southwark was under the care of the bishops of Winchester, and much of the building's future would depend on the goodwill of the bishops who lived in a palace just west of the church. The Augustinians created a hospital alongside the church, the direct predecessor of today's St Thomas's Hospital opposite the Houses of Parliament and originally named in honour of St Thomas a Becket.
At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, the last six canons were pensioned off, although they continued to live in buildings north of the church. The church itself became the property of King Henry VIII who rented it to the congregation. It was re-named St Saviour's, though the old name remained in popular usage for many years.
Tired of renting their church for worship, a group of merchants from the congregation, known as 'the Bargainers', bought the church from King James I in 1611 for £800. By this time the large unwieldy parish church served a very colourful area, not only of merchants and minor courtiers, but also actors, foreign craftsmen, and the ladies from the Bankside brothels.
The church ministered to its parish throughout the 16th and 17th centuries and various repairs and alterations were made to the building. The state of the building became a real cause for concern in the 1820s. Already in need of further repairs, the whole situation of the building was affected by the proposals for a new London Bridge to be constructed much closer to the church. The Bridge Committee suggested that St Saviour's be demolished and a smaller church be built on another site. After much argument the decision was made to restore the building, and it was largely due to the architect George Gwilt that major parts of today's Cathedral are still standing.
By the mid 19th century, living and working condition in south London were intolerable. They were depicted by novelist Charles Dickens in distressing detail and by Charles Booth's social researchers with grim accuracy. It was proposed that a new diocese should be created and in anticipation for this a new nave was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield in 1895.
St Saviour's church became Southwark Cathedral in 1905. The diocese which it serves stretches from the Thames to Gatwick Airport, from Thamesmead in the east almost to Thames Ditton in the west. It has a population of two and a half million people, served by over 300 parishes.
there are 4 Cathedrals in London Westminster cathedral Southwark Cathedral St. George Cathedral St. Paul's Cathedral
Thomas Primmitt Stevens has written: 'The story of Southwark cathedral, in fourteen chapters' -- subject(s): Antiquities, Southwark Cathedral, St. Saviour's Parish 'Shakespeare and Southwark'
London has many cathedrals, including St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral and St George's Cathedral.
It's not actually ON the bridge. It's on the south bank and called Southwark Cathedral (pronounced suth-urk)
Alfred Ridley Bax has written: 'On a ledger to the memory of James Bonwicke, Esq., in Mickleham Churchyard, Surrey' 'On some armorial ledgers in the cathedral church of St. Saviour, Southwark, and the persons they commemorate' -- subject(s): Southwark Cathedral
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In Southwark, south of the River Thames across from the City of London. The place where it was built is now called Anchor Terrace, Park Street, Southwark.
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