# Lewisham Priory

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Monastery in Kent / Greater London, England

Church in London, England

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**Lewisham Priory** was a [Benedictine](/source/Benedictine) monastic house in [Lewisham](/source/Lewisham), [Kent](/source/Kent) (now London), England.

In 918 Elftrudis otherwise [Ælfthryth](/source/%C3%86lfthryth_of_Wessex), countess of Flanders,[1] granted Lewisham, [Greenwich](/source/Greenwich) and [Woolwich](/source/Woolwich), to [St Peter's Abbey](/source/St._Peter's_Abbey%2C_Ghent) in [Ghent](/source/Ghent).[2] The priory, a dependency of St. Peter's Abbey and thus an [alien priory](/source/Alien_priory), was founded in the same year.[3]

The priory was dissolved and its possessions confiscated, like all alien priories, under the Act of 1414 by [Henry V](/source/Henry_V_of_England), who re-granted them to his new foundation, the [Carthusian](/source/Carthusian) monastery [Sheen Priory](/source/Sheen_Priory) in Surrey.[2]

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](/source/South_Circular_Road%2C_London)), 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Notes and references

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** but born in England, daughter of [Alfred the Great](/source/Alfred_the_Great)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-vch_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-vch_2-1) [Victoria County History: Kent - Alien houses: the priory of Lewisham (p. 238)](https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/kent/vol2/p238)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** 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.

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