Lewisham Priory

{{Short description|Monastery in Kent / Greater London, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox church | name = Lewisham Priory | full_name = | color = | image = | image_size = | caption = | landscape = | denomination = | diocese = | parish = | division = | founded = | founder = | architect = | style = | constructed_date = | dedicated = | closed = | demolished = | bishop = | priest = | dean = | rector = | vicar = | abbot = | pastor = | location = [[London]] | country = [[England]] | coordinates = | website = }} '''Lewisham Priory''' was a [[Benedictine]] monastic house in [[Lewisham]], [[Kent]] (now London), England.

In 918 Elftrudis otherwise [[Ælfthryth of Wessex|Ælfthryth]], countess of Flanders,<ref>but born in England, daughter of [[Alfred the Great]]</ref> granted Lewisham, [[Greenwich]] and [[Woolwich]], to [[St. Peter's Abbey, Ghent|St Peter's Abbey]] in [[Ghent]].<ref name = "vch">[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/kent/vol2/p238 Victoria County History: Kent - Alien houses: the priory of Lewisham (p. 238)]</ref> The priory, a dependency of St. Peter's Abbey and thus an [[alien priory]], was founded in the same year.<ref>David Knowles, C. N. L. Brooke, Vera C. M. London: ''The Heads of Religious Houses: England & Wales, I. 940–1216'', p. 105. 1st edn. 1972. Cambridge University Press.</ref>

The priory was dissolved and its possessions confiscated, like all alien priories, under the Act of 1414 by [[Henry V of England|Henry V]], who re-granted them to his new foundation, the [[Carthusian]] monastery [[Sheen Priory]] in Surrey.<ref name="vch" />

The location of the medieval Lewisham Priory is unknown but has been suggested to be either next to St Mary's church, at Priory Farm (around the Catford section of the [[South Circular Road, London|South Circular]]), or on the High Street where the 17th-century mansion of the same name was later built (now Albacore Crescent south of the hospital).{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

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