Bermondsey Square

You are standing in a place that served as an essential religious and economic hub for centuries. Bermondsey Square occupies the former main quadrangle of the medieval Bermondsey Abbey. Founded in the eleventh century, this monastery grew to rival Westminster Abbey in influence, and its history stretches back even further to an eighth-century minster that once occupied the same soil. You are walking over the buried foundations of a site that held significant royal status, acting as a powerful spiritual center until its dissolution under Henry the Eighth.