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Arizona, and reassembled (all 10,000 bricks) in Lake Havasu City. (Humor today's Brits,
who'd like to believe the Yank thought he was buying Tower Bridge.)
• Circle around the cathedral and find the entrance on the opposite side.
Southwark Cathedral
(See “Southwark Cathedral” map,
here
.)
This neighborhood parish church is where Shakespeare prayed while brother Edmund rang
the bells. The Southwark (SUTH-uck) church dates back to 1207, though the site has had
a church for at least a thousand years, and inhabitants for 2,000.
View down the Nave:
Clean and sparse, with warm golden stone, the church is
a symbol of the urban renewal of the whole Bankside/Southwark area. Its WWII damage
has been repaired, with replacement windows of unstained glass on the right side. The
nave bends slightly to the left (the chandelier, ceiling arches, and altar don't line up until
you take two baby steps left) as a medieval tribute to Christ's bent body on the cross.