ABSTRACT
Cripplegate Without on the west side of Red Cross Street, which until 1 1 7 7 was in the words of John Stow ‘the only place appoynted them in England wherein to bury their deade . . .’ An attempt was made to establish the extent of the graveyard in the parts of the site that were available in 1949. Finally, beyond the city and across the Thames the Cluniac house of
Bermondsey Abbey was represented above ground only by a wall of ancient appearance in an area which was almost completely levelled. With the help of H .M . Ministry of Works and of the Bermondsey Borough Council something was learned of the character of the monastic church, though in general only its foundations had survived.
