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Survey of London: volume 25 - St George's Fields (The parishes of St. George the Martyr Southwark and St. Mary Newington)

Year published

1955

Author

Ida Darlington (editor)

Description

A description of these two Surrey parishes, lying south of the Bankside area described in volume 22. It includes accounts of the Old Kent Road, the Imperial War Museum building (formerly Bethlem Hospital) and of St. George's Cathedral.

Sponsor

English Heritage

Source

Survey of London (Secondary texts)

Places

London

Subjects

Intellectual, scientific and cultural, Local, Urban and metropolitan

Periods

16th, 17th, 18th, 19th

Showing records 1 - 50 of 119

1
Description of plates
VII-XII
2
List of illustrations
XIII-XV
3
Preface
XVII-XVIII
4
Index plan
94
5
Borough High Street, Blackman Street and Newington Causeway
1-8
6
Southwark Prisons
9-21
7
Suffolk Place and the Mint
22-25
8
The Church of St George the Martyr
26-38
9
St George's Fields - Formation of the roads
39-48
10
St George's Fields - Enclosure and development
49-64
11
St George's Fields - Charitable institutions
65-71
12
St George's Cathedral
72-75
13
Bethlem Hospital (Imperial War Museum)
76-80
14
The manor of Walworth and parish of St. Mary, Newington
81-90
15
The Church of St Mary, Newington
91-94
16
The Church of St Peter Walworth, Liverpool Grove and Trafalgar Street
95-98
17
St Agnes Church, St Agnes Place and Kennington Park Road and Gardens
99-100
18
Nonconformist Chapels in Walworth
101-104
19
The Trinity House Estate
105-116
20
New Kent Road
117-120
21
Tabard Street and the Old Kent Road
121-126
22
Appendix I - Plan of Walworth Manor, 1681
127-128
23
Appendix II - Established churches not described in the Survey
129
24
Appendix III - Listed buildings in Southwark
130
25
References
131-136
26
Index
137-150
27
Frontispiece - The Elephant and Castle, 1826
93
28
Plate 1 - Plan of part of Borough High Street (c. 1542) and a fair scene
1
29
Plate 2 - Half Moon Inn and Angel Place
2
30
Plate 3 - Borough High Street, west side, 1903
3
31
Plate 4 - Layton's Buildings and the Catherine Wheel Inn
4
32
Plate 5 - The Marshalsea Prison
5
33
Plate 6 - King's Bench Prison, Borough Road
6
34
Plate 7 - King's Bench Prison and the British and Foreign School
7
35
Plate 8 - Surrey County Gaol
8
36
Plate 9 - Chimney piece now in Newington Sessions House
9
37
Plate 10 - Section of Wyngaerde's map-view showing Suffolk Place, etc.
10
38
Plate 11 - Harrow Street and Miniver Street
11
39
Plate 12 - Plan of the Unicorn Inn, Blackman Street, 1678
12
40
Plate 13 - Aerial view of Borough High Street, 1945
13
41
Plate 14 - St. George's Church, 1827
14
42
Plate 15 - St. George's Church, south-east view, 1941
15
43
Plate 16 - St. George's Church, sections, 1951
16
44
Plate 17 - St. George's Church, interior looking east, 1941
17
45
Plate 18 - St. George's Church, ceiling, 1831
18
46
Plate 19 - St. George's Church, ceiling, 1952
19
47
Plate 20 - St. George's Church, pulpit and coat of arms
20
48
Plate 21 - Suggested plan of new roads across St. George's Fields, 1768
21
49
Plate 22 - Plan of St. George's Fields, 1788
22
50
Plate 23 - Plan of St. George's Fields showing proposed lay-out, c. 1807
23
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