71
THE ALTAR AND THE HUMBLE ORNAMENT 74
THE LADY CHAPEL OR RETRO-CHOIR 75
TOMB OF BISHOP ANDREWES 77
MARTYRS' WINDOW TO SAUNDERS, FERRAR, AND TAYLOR 79
WINDOW COMMEMORATING KING CHARLES I, LAUD, AND BECKET 80
EFFIGY OF MAILED KNIGHT 82
THE TREHEARNE MONUMENT 83
THE HARVARD WINDOW 85
CARVED BOSSES FROM THE CEILING OF THE OLD NAVE, FIFTEENTH
CENTURY 90
THE AUSTIN MONUMENT (NORTH TRANSEPT) 91
ARMS OF CARDINAL BEAUFORT 96
MAP OF THE DIOCESE OF SOUTHWARK 98
THE PRIORY SEAL 103
PLAN OF THE CHURCH _End_

[Illustration: INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL.
_Reproduced from a drawing by Mr. Hedley Fitton, by permission
of the "Daily Chronicle."_]

[Illustration: ST. SAVIOUR'S IN 1660.
_Reproduced from "Church Bells."_]

SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL

CHAPTER I

HISTORY OF THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST. SAVIOUR, FORMERLY ST. MARY
OVERIE, SOUTHWARK

The history of St. Saviour's takes us back to those distant days when
Southwark was but a marsh, and when there was no bridge across the
Thames. John Stow, historian and antiquary (1525-1605), was acquainted
with Bartholomew Linstede, the last of the Priors, and gives the
following account of its origin on his authority:

East from the Bishop of Winchester's house, directly over
against it, standeth a fair church, called St.
Mary-over-the-Rie, or Overie; that is, over the water. This
church, or some other in place thereof, was, of old time, long
before the Conquest, a house of sisters, founded by a maiden
named Mary; unto the which house and sisters she left, as was
left to her by her parents, the oversight and profits of a
cross ferry, or traverse ferry over the Thames, there kept
before that any bridge was built. This house of sisters was
after by Swithun, a noble lady, converted into a college of
priests, who in place of the ferry built a bridge of timber,
and from