E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Jeannie Howse, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24616-h.htm or 24616-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/6/1/24616/24616-h/24616-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/6/1/24616/24616-h.zip) +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Text enclosed between equal signs was in bold face in the | | original. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For a | | complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by GEORGE WORLEY With XXXVI Illustrations [Illustration: _Photo._ _Photochrom Co._ SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL FROM THE EAST.] [Illustration] London George Bell & Sons 1905 Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co. Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London. PREFACE The numerous authorities, ancient and modern, which I have been obliged to draw upon, are acknowledged, where necessary, in the text. Those who wish to pursue the study of St. Saviour's Cathedral in greater detail and completeness than is here possible, must be referred to some of the larger works to which I have had recourse; _e.g._, those by Moss and Nightingale (1817-1818), F.T. Dollman (1881), and the Rev. Dr. Thompson (1904). The Surrey Archaeological Society's "Collections" are also to be recommended for the valuable subsidiary matter they contain, in the shape of original documents, selected and carefully edited from sources not easily accessible to the public. For facts not elsewhere recorded I am under special obligations to Sir Arthur Blomfield and Sons, architects for the restoration, who have not only afforded most useful information, and given access to drawings, which they alone possessed, but have been good enough to draw up the plan, showing the most recent work at the Cathedral, expressly for this volume.