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Colfe's Grammar School, Lewisham High Street, Lewisham, 1830

Colfe's Grammar School, Lewisham High Street, Lewisham, 1830

The Leathersellers' Company took over the school after his death and built the almshouses c.1665. Follwing wartime damage, they were demolished in 1958.

  

Map of Colfe's Grammar School - Click to enlarge

Abraham Colfe was vicar of Lewisham from 1610 to 1657. He founded the school that still bears his name in 1652.

The site was just to the north of Lewisham Hospital at the location of the present Registrar's Office.
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