Borough Market

| repeal_date = | amendments = | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = | status = Amended | original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=a7wuAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA227 | collapsed = yes }} The market itself claims to have existed since 1014 "and probably much earlier" as Snorri Sturluson, writing in Heimskringla, describes Southwark as a "great market town" in reference to an incident of 1014. A market that originally adjoined the end of London Bridge was first mentioned in 1276 and was subsequently moved south of St Margaret's church on the High Street. The City of London received a royal charter from Edward VI in 1550 to control all markets in Southwark (see Guildable Manor),…

The present buildings were designed in 1851 by Henry Rose, with additions in the 1860s and an entrance designed in the Art Deco style added on Southwark Street in 1932. Significant changes to the buildings have been made over the years as a result of successive expansions to the nearby railway infrastructure; see "Railway viaducts and the Thameslink Programme". A refurbishment began in 2001. The work includes the re-erection in 2004 of the South Portico from the Floral Hall, previously at Covent Garden, which was dismantled when the Royal Opera House was reconstructed in the 1990s. <gallery class="center"> File:Borough market c1860.jpg|Borough Market circa 1860 File:Art Deco 1930s entrance…