Southwark Cathedral
Tucked between Borough Market and the railway viaduct at the southern end of London Bridge, Southwark Cathedral is the oldest Gothic church building in London, on a site that has held a church for over a thousand years. The priory of St Mary Overie was founded here in 1106, and the church that stands today was begun after a fire in the 1220s. It became the cathedral of the new diocese of Southwark in 1905, having spent the centuries in between as the parish church of St Saviour.
The square central tower, with its four pinnacles, is what shows above the roofs of Borough, and it has a hard job of it now, standing directly beneath The Shard. That contrast is what makes it worth finding: a small Gothic tower in a sea of railway lines and market roofs.
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Planate London – London Bridge Quarter
No.1 London Bridge (the building with the cut-out section right by the bridge) forms the foreground to the dramatic cluster at London Bridge Quarter, home to the Shard. It has become a more exciting section of the Thames to shoot, and the river moorings have a pleasing echo of the Shard’s shape. Many people’s experience…
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The Shard London Bridge – Blue Hour
The Shard is one of London’s most exciting buildings. It was completed in 2012, then becoming the tallest building in the European Union. I shot views from the Shard for the developer, and the sheer height of the building has made it one of the most exciting series of cityscapes I have worked on –…