102 Mr. N. F. Robarts’s 
to preserve them—were happily photographed by Mr. C. M. Smith. 
One portion of a column of Purbeck marble is still in a house in 
Grange Walk, if anyone wishes to secure it; and I believe, though 
I have not seen them, there are some Saxon ornaments in the 
great wall near the churchyard. 
A general view of the remains in 1805, taken from the steeple 
of St. Mary Magdalen, gives us some little idea of the style of 
Bermondsey House, which no doubt incorporated certain of the 
old monastic buildings. 
The only portion now standing is Nos. 6 and 7, Grange Walk, 
in the front wall of which are the staples on which the east gate 
of the Abbey hung; the wall facing the street is very thick— 
some three or four feet—and no doubt formed part of a very 
substantial gateway. 
There was until a few weeks ago a medieval wall dividing the 
S.E.R. Model Dwellings from No. 66, Abbey Street. I went to 
photograph it, and found the workmen were just building a new 
wall, to make the yard look nice I suppose, and they had cut 
away a portion of the old brickwork so as to reface it. I did my 
best to photograph it, and you can see in the photograph by the 
difference in the size of the bricks the junction of old and new 
work. The face is now put-on, and until No. 66 is in its turn 
pulled down no more of the old wall can be seen. 
Engravings remain in Wilkinson’s ‘ Londina’ of the (1) east 
view of the gateway; (2) the interior of a room adjoining those 
under the hall of Bermondsey Abbey (House ?); (8) the inside and 
outside of the hall; (4) the inside of one of the rooms under the 
hall. Wilkinson thinks that the view of the inside and outside 
of the hall is probably of the hall or refectory of the Monastery, 
as its appearance seems older than Sir Thomas Pope’s time. 
According to Walford’s ‘Old and New London,’ the east gate 
of the monastery was removed early last century (it really was 
taken down in 1805), and nearly all that was left of the old 
buildings shared the same fate, and Abbey Street was made upon 
the site. 
The Neckinger Road marks the ancient watercourse formerly 
navigable as far as the precincts of the Abbey; whilst Walford 
says that the church of St. Mary Magdalen stands on the site of 
the ancient conventual church. This I think is incorrect. 
There is no doubt that in 1810 the present churchyard was 
enlarged by annexing to it a strip of land sixteen feet in width 
that formed a part of the conventual burial ground. There is in 
the church part of a stone coffin which was then found about six 
feet from the surface, in front of the ‘ White Bear’ tavern. The 
lid possesses no ornament, but has a raised beading passing down 
the centre. This, according to Mr. E. B. Price,* is a rough 
* Brit. Arch. Journal, vol. ii. p. 170. 
