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Bermondsey Abbey

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Bermondsey Abbey

Bermondsey Priory (converted into an Abbey late in the fourteenth century), was an English Benedictine monastery founded in 1082, by Alwin Child, a Londoner, for Cluniac monks from the monastery of La Charitê de Dieu on the Loire, which continued to supply its priors until 1,372.

Bermondsey Abbey took seven years to build and used to occupy what is now Bermondsey Square, the site of Bermondsey Market in the low-lying parish adjoining Southwark.

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