London, an intimate picture . gate,but chiefly there are men and horses (including don-keys) and the smell of fish that send up their saluteto you as you lean over the parapet of the bridgeand look down upon them. Resolutely you concludethat that experience is enough, and without listeningfor the celebrated language, you march on across thebusy bridge to the Borough towards St. Saviours,now known as Southwark Cathedral. So far as the sightseer is concerned Southwark (orSothark, as it is pronounced) contains only two orthree points of interest, but they are of capital im-portance. And the great
London, an intimate picture . gate,but chiefly there are men and horses (including don-keys) and the smell of fish that send up their saluteto you as you lean over the parapet of the bridgeand look down upon them. Resolutely you concludethat that experience is enough, and without listeningfor the celebrated language, you march on across thebusy bridge to the Borough towards St. Saviours,now known as Southwark Cathedral. So far as the sightseer is concerned Southwark (orSothark, as it is pronounced) contains only two orthree points of interest, but they are of capital im-portance. And the greatest of these is St. Savioursbecause it is still comparatively intact, despite reno-vations. A whole county of Dickens Land lies far-ther down along the High Street, but St. Savioursmight be called the Church of the Dramatists. Itdates far enough back, however, to hold the tombof the poet Gower, contemporary of Chaucer, whomthe verger calls Chaucers teacher. Well, we alllearn from each other, so we may let that pass. The [112]. ?. /;/ Is v/,. r,.- Travel Co. St. Saviours Church THE CITY original nave was built by Gifford, Bishop of Win-chester, so early as 1106. A hundred years later,another Bishop of Winchester built the Choir andLady Chapel which (bar repairs) survive to this nave was rebuilt in 1896, but in admirable taste,and in the style of the original. Altogether this isa church of harmony, and it has need to be, for be-sides the tomb of Gower it has on the opposite(south) side of the nave a monument in marble witha reclining alabaster figure to William Shakespeare,so long a resident of this parish — a tribute fromEnglish and American admirers, the inscriptionreads. The windows of Massinger, Fletcher andBeaumont follow Shakespeares along the Beaumonts is a window to Edward Alleyn,player, who was a churchwarden here in 1610. Itshows that despite the low legal status of the actorat that time (and, indeed, until to-day), of a va-grant, he must have been
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