(St.) Paul's School

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

Formerly on the eastern side of St. Paul's Churchyard, west of Old Change, in Farringdon Ward Within (O.S. 1880).


First mention: Grammar-house or messuage lately called "Poules Scole" and four shops under the same near Seint Austen's Gate, mentioned in will of John Colet, 1514 (Ct. H.W. II. 640).

Stow says the School was new built and endowed by John Collet, Dean for 153 children in 1512, and left to the Mercers Company (S. 332).

Burnt in the Fire and rebuilt, and again rebuilt 1823.

School removed to West Kensington in 1880. Removal mentioned by Pepys in his Diary, so long previously as 1667.

Old site occupied by warehouses.

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