Anglican Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Bermondsey – the oldest building in the district, which are very prominent for its Gothic architecture, standing on the corner of Bermondsey street and Abbey street. This name ("Abby street" – "Abbey street") recalls that a long time ago on this land was a former monastery.

In 1082, arrived from France monks built here Cluniac monastery (belonging to the Cluniac congregation are the branches of the Benedictine center of Cluny in Burgundy). Like all the monasteries of this branch, he had a large territory, magnificent buildings and considerable influence. In the huge halls of the Abbey of Bermondsey kings conducted state tips. Within these walls died Queen-consort, Catherine of Valois, widow of Edward IV Elizabeth pudwill. Here were buried many aristocrats. All this has not helped in 1537, when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries and seized their property: the mighty Abbey, for centuries, played an important role in the life of the country, did not.

But the Church of the Abbey remained, becoming a parish. It is first mentioned in documents from the year 1290. It is now known exactly how she looked, in 1680, it was demolished and ten years later was rebuilt from the old architecture there remained only the medieval tower with a Gothic window and arches. In the new Church was a portico on the West side, which were removed in the nineteenth century, when reconstruction was performed. After temple took a few playful Gothic look with pop top teeth and plastered walls. He was then reduced tower (probably too high and heavy), and the building gained its current squat, giving the originality of its appearance.

The churchyard is closed for burials in 1854, is now a spacious square. A small building in the southwest corner is a gatehouse, where he watched over the graves, the grave diggers had not stolen the corpses (they are marketed in sayworks hospitals of guy's and St Thomas – medical students and novice surgeons needed in practice).

Inside the Church was repaired several times, but the interior has survived: the altarpiece, oak panel with carved cherubim behind the altar, two large brass chandeliers 1699 and 1703, a wooden bench Church warden with a carved seal of the Abbey of Bermondsey lion with a stick in his paw. Metal sculpture by a local blacksmith Kevin boys, depicting the same lion with a stick, and was solemnly installed in 2011 on Southwark Park road – as a reminder of the history of the area.