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Southwark Cathedral
John Gower, one of the earliest benefactors of the Church, lies buried here. Stow writes of him: "He lieth under a tomb of stone with his image also of stone over him; the hair of his head, auburn, long to his shoulders but curling up, and a small forked beard; on his head a chaplet like a coronet of four roses; a habit of purple damasked down to his feet; a collar of esses of gold about his neck; under his head the likeness of three books which he compiled." The monument has been restored and recoloured. John Fletcher, poet, and son of Bishop Fletcher, is buried here, also Phillip Massinger, Sir Edward Dyer, poet, and a brother of Shakespeare, etc. SPA ROAD. Bermondsey. (SE16) Named from Bermondsey Spa, a chalybeate spring, discovered about 1770. The Spa was opened in 1780 as a minor Vauxhall with fireworks and a model of the siege of Gibraltar, painted by Keyse, and occupying about four acres. The garden was shut up about 1805 (Reference: Timbs's Curiosities of London, p. 50)
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