Southwark Cathedral - Tour - Crossing and Transepts

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Crossing and Transepts
Austin monument
Lockyer monument
Blisse monument
Harvard chapel
Stilted arch
The candelabrum
Cardinal Beaufort's arms
Bingham monument
Wigan monument

Choir and Retro-Choir

The North Transept contains several interesting monuments: one erected in 1633 to Joyce Austin with an elaborate agricultural allegory; another commemorates a physician, Lionel Lockyer, who was famous for his pills. With the rather outlandish claims his epitaph makes for his pills it is somewhat surprising that Mr Lockyer did not live longer! The memorial remains a source of amusement for today's visitors.

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A third memorial is to Richard Blisse (1703) complete with full-bottomed wig. Where the Transept joins the Crossing the walls have a Norman core.

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Austin monument
Lockyer monument
Blisse monument
Harvard chapel
Stilted arch
The candelabrum
Cardinal Beaufort's arms
Bingham monument
Wigan monument

The South Transept was rebuilt in 1420 by Cardinal Beaufort. His coat of arms, surmounted by a cardinal's hat, can be seen on the vaulting shaft. Other notable people remembered here include John Bingham, a Vestryman for over twenty years, and Sir Frederick Wigan (1827 - 1907). The latter was a generous benefactor when the church was rebuilt in the 1890s.

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