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Bermondsey Abbey was an English Benedictine monastery. Although generally regarded as having been founded in the 11th century, it had a precursor mentioned in the early 8th century. It was centred on what is now Bermondsey Square, the site of Bermondsey Market, Bermondsey, in the London Borough of Southwark, southeast London, England .
Bermondsey Abbey. The monastery became the Priory of St Saviour in 1089, attached to the French Abbey of Cluny making it an ‘alien property’. In 1380 Richard Dunton, the first English prior, paid a fine of 200 marks (£133.33) to have the Priory naturalised: this protected it from actions taken against alien properties in time of war, but ...
The parish church of St. Mary Magdalen, rebuilt in 1680, at the junction of Bermondsey Street and Abbey Street, occupies nearly the site of the conventual church. The monastic buildings were, doubtless, very extensive and magnificent; and the monks maintained a splendid hospitality and state.
Bermondsey (/ ˈ b ɜːr m ə n d z i / BUR-mənd-zee) is a district in southeast London, part of the London Borough of Southwark, England, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southeast of Charing Cross. To the west of Bermondsey lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe and Deptford, to the south Walworth and Peckham, and to the north is Wapping across the River ...
The Abbey is still commemorated by many local street names. It is believed that the name Bermondsey originates from the Saxon name “Beormund” coupled with the word for “islet” which was “eye” (as in other names beside the Thames such as Molesey and Chertsey). Although it may be hard to believe now, the area was low-lying marsh with ...
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Bermondsey Abbey was an English Benedictine monastery. Although generally regarded as having been founded in the 11th century, it had a precursor mentioned in the early 8th century. It was centred on what is now Bermondsey Square, the site of Bermondsey Market, Bermondsey, in the London Borough of S
abbey have suspected, although in some rather unexpected places. The Bermondsey annals, compiled in 1432, are, of course, a well-known source for the abbey’s history, even if they have been shown to be rather unreliable. In the absence of an authentic foundation charter, they provide what little information we have about the abbey’s
