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George Worley. Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral
Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral
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PREFACEToC
SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL
CHAPTER IToC
HISTORY OF THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST. SAVIOUR, FORMERLY ST. MARY OVERIE, SOUTHWARK
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IIToC
THE EXTERIOR
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IIIToC
THE INTERIOR
CHAPTER IVToC
THE DIOCESE OF SOUTHWARK
APPENDIX
IToC
IIToC
IIIToC
IVToC
FOOTNOTES:
VToC
INDEXToC
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George Worley
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The latter, as representatives of the ancient Seniores Ecclesiastici, were charged with the protection of the edifice and church furniture, but the records show that they had no special veneration for either. The Act of 1540, appointing them to St. Saviour's, had formed them into a Corporation in continuation of the Perpetual Guild or Fraternity of the Assumption, incorporated in 1449. This Guild was afterwards merged in the Churchwardens of St. Margaret's, whence the existing officers were transferred to St. Saviour's on the amalgamation of the parishes, and others added to their number. With the help of their fellow vestrymen they soon set to work to render the Collegiate Church more convenient. To secure an easy communication between that church and the adjacent chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, they cut through the south wall of the choir, and constructed four clumsy arches in it, thus opening the way from one building to the other. From that time forward the smaller of the two was used as a vestibule, and the other chapels and chantries pertaining to the larger church were doomed to destruction, as being no longer required under the altered conditions. The proceedings which strike us as most sacrilegious occurred in the Lady Chapel. Perhaps they cannot be better described than in Stow's graphic words:
The chapel was leased and let out, and the House of God made a bakehouse. Two very fair doors … were lathed, daubed, and dammed up, the fair pillars were ordinary posts, against which they piled billets and bavens. In this place they had their ovens, in that a bolting place, in that their kneading trough, in another (I have heard) a hog's trough, for the words that were given me were these: "This place have I known a hog-stie, in another a storehouse to store up their hoarded meal, and in all of it something of this sordid kind and condition."
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