The Cluniac priory and abbey of St Saviour Bermondsey, Surrey: excavations 1984-95
Resource type
Book
Creator (person)
Dyson, Tony
Samuel, Mark
Steele, Alison
Wright, Susan M.
Date published
2011
Abstract
Bermondsey Priory was founded on the south bank of the Thames, across the river from the White Tower, in the 1080s. Bermondsey became a centre of pilgrimage and in 1399 the priory’s status was raised to that of an abbey, before its transformation in the 16th century into a courtier’s mansion. The results of modern excavation of the eastern parts of the church, cloister and inner court, and the monastic cemetery are complemented by documentary research and an extensive 19th-century survey of the abbey, providing a detailed picture of the 12th-century building programme and subsequent expansion and remodelling. Also examined are the monastery’s Anglo-Saxon antecedents and the Tudor mansion which succeeded it.
Publisher
MOLA
Place of publication
London, UK
Rights statement
In Copyright