The Anglican Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Bermondsey - the oldest building in the area outlier of its Gothic architecture - is at the corner of Bermondsey Street and Abbey Street. The name ("Abbey Street" - "Abbey Street") reminds us that for a long time on these lands a monastery.

In 1082 came from France, the monks built a monastery of Cluny (Cluny congregation belonged - a branch of the Benedictine Order with the center of Cluny in Burgundy). Like all the monasteries of this branch, it had a large area, magnificent buildings and considerable influence. The huge halls Bermondsey Abbey Kings carried the State Council. Within these walls are dead queen consort Catherine of Valois and the widow of Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville. Here it was buried many aristocrats. All this has not helped in 1537 when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries and seized their possessions: a powerful abbey, for centuries played an important role in the life of the country, was no more.

But the abbey church remained, becoming a parish. She first mentioned in documents in 1290. Now it is not known exactly how it looked then - in 1680 it was demolished and a decade to rebuild from the old architecture was only a medieval tower with Gothic windows and arches. The new church was a portico on the west side, which is removed in the XIX century, when the reconstruction was carried out. After her temple took a few playful gothic look to appear at the top teeth and stucco walls. At the same time the tower was reduced (probably too high and heavy), and acquired the current building squat, add originality of its appearance.

Church cemetery closed to burials in 1854, it is now a spacious park. A small building in the southwest corner - lodge, which implies the graves to the excavators did not steal corpses (they are sold in sausvorkskie Guy's Hospital and St. Thomas - medical students and novice surgeons needed in practice).

Inside the church repaired several times, but in the interior much preserved: the altarpiece, oak panels with carved cherubs behind the altar, two large brass chandelier 1699 and 1703's, a wooden bench churchwarden with carved on it the seal of the Abbey of Bermondsey - a lion with a stick in his paw. Metal sculpture by a local blacksmith Kevin Boyce, depicting the same lion with a stick, was officially established in 2011 by Sausvork Park Road - as a reminder of the area's history.