London - Southwark Cathedral, Shakespeare Window - real photo postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  Shakespeare Window, Southwark Cathedral, London - real photo type
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Southwark Cathedral (Br ['s?ð?k])^[2] or The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark, London, lies on the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge. It is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark. It has been a place of Christian worship for more than 1,000 years, but a cathedral only since the creation of the diocese of Southwark in 1905.

Between 1106 and 1538 it was the church of an Augustinian priory, Southwark Priory, dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Following the dissolution of the monasteries, it became a parish church, with the new dedication of St Saviour's. The church was in the diocese of Winchester until 1877, when the parish of St Saviour's, along with other South London parishes, was transferred to the diocese of Rochester. ^[3] The present building retains the basic form of the Gothic structure built between 1220 and 1420, although the nave is a late 19th-century reconstruction.

Borough Market is immediately to its south and the Hall of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass is on the riverside part of Montague Close on its north.

The 16th-century London historian John Stow recorded an account of the origins of the Southwark Priory of St Mary that he had heard from Bartholomew Linsted, who had been the last prior when the priory was dissolved.^[4] Linsted claimed it had been founded as a nunnery ""long before the [Norman] Conquest"" by a maiden named Mary, on the profits of a ferry across the Thames she had inherited from her parents. Later it was converted into a college of priests by ""Swithen, a noble lady"". Finally in 1106 it was refounded as an Augustinian priory.

The tale of the ferryman's daughter Mary and her benefactions became very popular, but later historians tried to rationalise Linsted's story. Thus the author of an 1862 guidebook to the then St Saviour's church suggested it was probable that the ""noble lady"" Swithen had in fact been a man – Swithun, Bishop of Winchester from 852 or 853 until his death in 863.^[5]

In the 20th century this identification was accepted by the Revd Thomas P. Stevens, Succentor and Sacrist, and later Honorary Canon, of Southwark Cathedral, who wrote a number of guidebooks to the cathedral, and a history that was revised and reprinted many times. He went on to date the foundation of the supposed original nunnery to ""about the year 606"", although he provided no evidence to support the date.^[6] Although recent guidebooks are more circumspect, referring only to ""a tradition"", an information panel at the east end of the cathedral still claims that there had been ""A convent founded in 606 AD"" and ""A monastery established by St Swithun in the 9th century"".

type=real photographic (rp)

london borough=southwark

period=post-war (1945-present)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=continental/ modern (150x100 mm)