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Tony Dyson, Mark Samuel, Alison Steele, Susan M Wright.
The Cluniac priory and abbey of St Saviour Bermondsey, Surrey: excavations 1984-95.
Publisher: Museum of London Archaeology.
Series: Monograph Series 50.
Publication due: December 2011.
Page count: 297pp.
Illustrations: 189 bl/wh and col.

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Hardback ISBN 9781901992960, £27.00

Description:

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.