South London . NORTH-EAST VIEW OF ST. SAVIOURS, SOUTHWARK, 1800 King was murdered in the presence of his wife, who waswounded in trying to save him, a sad ending to a marriage oflove, and a tragic widowhood to the woman whom her poet had called The fairest and the freshest younge flowerThat eer I saw, methought, before that hour. Tn 1539 the House was suppressed, the canons were put ST. MARY OVERIES 19: out, and the place was given to Sir Anthony Brown, whoseson became Viscount Montague and gave his new name to theancient close of the Monastery. In the following year theChurch was n»ade a Pari
South London . NORTH-EAST VIEW OF ST. SAVIOURS, SOUTHWARK, 1800 King was murdered in the presence of his wife, who waswounded in trying to save him, a sad ending to a marriage oflove, and a tragic widowhood to the woman whom her poet had called The fairest and the freshest younge flowerThat eer I saw, methought, before that hour. Tn 1539 the House was suppressed, the canons were put ST. MARY OVERIES 19: out, and the place was given to Sir Anthony Brown, whoseson became Viscount Montague and gave his new name to theancient close of the Monastery. In the following year theChurch was n»ade a Parish Church, including the church of Mary. CRVPT OF ST. MARY OVERIES Magdalene, which stood beside the Priory Church, as St. Pctcr-Ic-Poor stood beside St. Austin, St. Gregory beside St. Pauls,and St. Margaret beside Westminster Abbey Church togetherwith the Parish Church of St. Margaret in the High Street. Thenave gradually became ruinous and was taken down in 1838, 196 SOUTH LONDON when a new nave, the memory of which makes the wholeBorough shudder when it is mentioned, was put up. Itsfloor was raised above that of the transepts, and it was treatedas a separate building, divided from the transepts by a brickwall. This terrible building has now been taken down and anave rebuilt after the pattern of the original structure of thefourteenth century. Thus reconstructed, the church will soon,it is hoped, become the Cathedral Church of the Diocese ofSouthwark. At present it has not the Cathedral organisa-tion, being without a Dean, or Canons, or a Chapter. TheChurch can boast of more monuments and of a more dis-tinguished company o
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