Southwark Cathedral Measure, 1937
PREAMBLE. The Church of Saint Saviour, Southwark, originally the Collegiate Church of the Priory of Saint Mary Overie, thereafter served as the church of a parish established, by a Statute of Henry VIII in the year 1541, out of two previously existing parishes. The property of the Wardens of those two parishes was vested in a body of six Wardens, who were to be elected by the parishioners of the new parish.

The rectory, church, burying-ground and certain other property in the parish were gra...