LAMBETH, a southern metropolitan borough of London, England. Pop. (1931) 296,162. Brixton and Kennington are mentioned in Domesday; and in Vauxhall is concealed the name of Falkes de Breaute, an unscrupulous adventurer of the time of John and Henry III. The manor of North Lambeth was given to the bishopric of Rochester in the time of Edward the Con fessor, and the bishops had a house here till the 16th century, but the manor was acquired by the see of Canterbury at the end of the 12th century. The palace of the archbishops is still here. The oldest part of the palace remaining is the Early English chapel. The so-called Lollard's Tower, which retains evidence of its use as a prison, dates c. 1440. There is a fine Tudor gate house of brick, and the hall is dated 1663. The portion now inhabited by the archbishops was erected in 1834. Among the portraits of the archbishops here are examples by Holbein, Van Dyck, Hogarth and Reynolds. There is a valuable library. The church of St. Mary was rebuilt c. 1850, though the ancient
monuments preserved give it an appearance of antiquity. The name is commonly confined to the northern part of the borough, bordering the river; but the principal districts included are Ken nington and Vauxhall (north central), Brixton (central) and part of Norwood (south). Four road-bridges cross the Thames within the limits of the borough, namely Waterloo, Westminster, Lam beth and Vauxhall, of which the first, a stone structure, dates from 1817, and is the oldest Thames bridge standing within the county of London. St. Thomas' hospital fronts the Albert em bankment. The original foundation dated from 1213, was situated in Southwark, and was connected with the priory of Bermondsey. In the northern part of the borough are the Doulton pottery works. Other manufactures include white lead, chemicals, soap, etc. The parliamentary borough of Lambeth has four divisions, North, Kennington, Brixton and Norwood, each returning one member.