London . T i< g. S3I • ?- [^»ji gfi. w { - . *a i< us. oai. [Existing Kemains of the Conventual Biiililings.] LI.—BERMONDSEY. THE ABBEY. It is a curious circumstance, and one in which the history of many changes ofopinion may be read, that within forty years after what remained of the mag-nificent ecclesiastical foundation of the Abbey of Bermondsey had been sweptaway, a new conventual establishment has risen up, amidst the surrounding dese-cration of factories and warehouses, in a large and picturesque pile, with itsstately church, fitted in every way for the residence and accommodation
London . T i< g. S3I • ?- [^»ji gfi. w { - . *a i< us. oai. [Existing Kemains of the Conventual Biiililings.] LI.—BERMONDSEY. THE ABBEY. It is a curious circumstance, and one in which the history of many changes ofopinion may be read, that within forty years after what remained of the mag-nificent ecclesiastical foundation of the Abbey of Bermondsey had been sweptaway, a new conventual establishment has risen up, amidst the surrounding dese-cration of factories and warehouses, in a large and picturesque pile, with itsstately church, fitted in every way for the residence and accommodation ofthirty or forty inmates—the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy. We read inthe records of our own immediate time, that A Convent was built adjoiningthe Roman Catholic chapel, in Parkers Row, in the year 1838, for the order ofthe Sisters of Mercy. On the rith of December, 1839, the ceremony of theprofession of six of the aforesaid sisters took place in the chapel adjoining. Thehigh mass, performed by Mr. CoUinwidge, was celebrated at eleven oclock, atwhich th
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