'Bermondsey Abbey, 1790', (c1878). Bermondsey Abbey was an English Benedictine monastery in Southwark, London. Thomas Pope (c1507-1559), founder of Trinity College, Oxford, bought the site, demolished the abbey and built a house on the land. Neither the house nor the Abbey were still standing in the 19th century. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]