Southwark Cathedral

Southwark Cathedral
Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie
Southwark Cathedral Shown within Central London
51°30′22″N 0°5′23″W / 51.50611°N 0.08972°W / 51.50611; -0.08972
Location	Southwark London, SE1
Country	England
Denomination	Church of England
Website	cathedral.southwark.anglican.org
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade I listed building
Designated	2 March 1950
Style	Gothic, Gothic Revival
Years built	1106–1897
Administration
Province	Canterbury
Diocese	Southwark (since 1905)
Clergy
Bishop(s)	Christopher Chessun
Dean	Mark Oakley
Subdean	Michael Rawson
Precentor	Kathryn Fleming SCP
Succentor	Thomas Sharp
Canon Chancellor	Wendy Robins
Canon Treasurer	Jeremy Clark-King (DDO)
Laity
Director of music	Ian Keatley
Organist(s)	James Gough
Verger	Paul Timms, Simon Gutwein, James Collins, Robert Biden

Southwark Cathedral (/ˈsʌðərk/ ^ⓘ SUDH-ərk)^[1] or The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark, London, lies near the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge. It is the mother church of the Diocese of Southwark. It has been a place of Christian worship for more than 1,000 years, but the church was not raised to cathedral status until the creation of the diocese of Southwark in 1905.

Between 1106 and 1538 it was the church of an Augustinian priory, Southwark Priory, dedicated in honour of the Virgin Mary (St. Mary – over the river, 'overie'). Following the dissolution of the monasteries, it became a parish church, with a dedication to the Holy Saviour (St. Saviour). The church was in the diocese of Winchester until 1877, when the parish of St Saviour's, along with other South London parishes, was transferred to the diocese of Rochester.^[2] The present building retains the basic form of the Gothic structure built between 1220 and 1420, although the nave is a late 19th-century reconstruction.