St George the Martyr, Southwark

A supplied account of a church visit describes St George the Martyr as a Georgian church and says it is the third church on the site. In a recorded conversation, the church’s director describes the site as lying on an old Roman settlement and at the meeting point of Roman routes; he notes that a Roman temple beneath it is speculation, not an archaeological finding. A local-history account links the church and nearby Marshalsea wall to Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit, including the novel’s church wedding. A separate Southwark Cathedral source describes Borough High Street as an old Roman road and records its association with travellers, inns and Canterbury pilgrims.

No specific local legend is substantiated by the supplied sources. The claim that a Roman temple lies beneath the church is explicitly presented in the recorded conversation as unproven speculation, not established history.