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OUR LADY'S CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK.


It may not plainly appear to some readers that our Engraving of this
fine vestige of ancient art, is from a View taken in the year 1818.
The Bishop's Chapel, which is there shown, was demolished about twelve
months since, at whose bidding we know not; perhaps of the same party
who now contend for the destruction of the Lady Chapel.

By the way we referred to the Altar Screen, of which we now find the
following memorandum in a _History of St. Saviour's Church_, published
in 1795:[4]

"Anno 1618. 15 Jac. I.
"The screen at the entrance to the chapel of the Virgin Mary was
this year set up."

In the same work occur the particulars of the repairs of the Lady
Chapel in 1624:

"Anno 1624. 21 Jac. I.
"The chapel of the Virgin Mary was restored to the parishioners,
being let out to bakers for above sixty years before, and 200_l_.
laid out in the repair. Of which we preserve the following extract
from Stowe: