page_title: Southwark Cathedral
section_title: Other information
hierarchical_section_title: Southwark Cathedral / Other information
caption_attribution_description: Now in her tenth year at Southwark Cathedral.
context_page_description: Southwark Cathedral or The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark, London, lies on the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge. It is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark. It has been a place of Christian worship for more than 1,000 years, but a cathedral only since the creation of the diocese of Southwark in 1905.
  Between 1106 and 1538 it was the church of an Augustinian priory, Southwark Priory, dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Following the dissolution of the monasteries, it became a parish church, with the new dedication of St Saviour's. The church was in the diocese of Winchester until 1877, when the parish of St Saviour's, along with other South London parishes, was transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The present building retains the basic form of the Gothic structure built between 1220 and 1420, although the nave is a late 19th-century reconstruction.
context_section_description: The cathedral is used by London South Bank University for its annual honorary degree ceremony, by Regent's College for its graduation ceremonies, and by King's College London for its medical and dental degree ceremonies, an association stemming from its merger with Guy's and St Thomas' teaching hospitals, St Thomas' having started as an infirmary attached to the Priory of St Mary. The cathedral also hosts the London Nautical School's annual Christmas Carol Service.
  There are two other cathedrals in Southwark: the Roman Catholic St George's Cathedral Southwark and the Greek Orthodox St Mary's at Camberwell New Road.
  Southwark Cathedral is also known for being the home to Doorkins Magnificat, a grey female cat who began visiting the cathedral in 2008 as a stray looking for food and shelter.  She has since made the Cathedral her permanent home and is often found curled up beneath a radiator or prowling the aisles.  She became known as a local celebrity and has met both the Mayor of London and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on formal visits to the cathedral.  Doorkins features in the specially-written children's book ‘Doorkins The Cathedral Cat’ which can be bought from the cathedral shop, and in 2018 was immortalised with her very own stone gargoyle which is positioned inside the cathedral.
caption: Doorkins Magnificat, resident cat of Southwark Cathedral.
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