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English Gothic architecture in Greater London

  • Westminster AbbeyIn the mid-10th century, a community of Benedictine monks settled on Thorney Island in the River Thames. This location became the site of an abbey dedicated…
  • Southwark CathedralIn 1538, the last prior of Southwark Priory, Bartholomew Linsted, told a story to the historian John Stow about how the site began.