17th century
A group of merchants bought St Saviour's from James I. The parish served local residents, merchants as well as actors and women who worked in the nearby brothels.
Mid-16th century
Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, the church became the property of Henry VIII who rented it to the congregation. It was re-named St Saviour's church.
1590s
The historian John Stow referred to a “single woman’s churchyard” in north Southwark. According to local lore, this plot of ground was located away from the parish church as a place to bury women who worked in the brothels and were denied a Christian burial. The precise location of the ground is not given.
1580 -1613
This was the period of the early playhouses, from Newington Butts to the south of the area to The Rose, The Swan and The Globe on Bankside, where many of William Shakespeare’s plays were performed.
12th century
The dates of the first church on the south bank of the Thames, by the Old London Bridge, are uncertain. The first definitive date is in 1106 when the church was reestablished by two Norman knights as an Augustinian priory and dedicated to St Mary, later known as St Mary Overy (“over the river”).
43-350 AD
The area now known as Southwark was a Roman centre of trade and administration to the south of the Thames, with warehouses, large houses, barracks and temples.
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