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(now London), England. In 918 Elftrudis otherwise Ælfthryth, countess of Flanders, granted Lewisham,

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, to St Peter's Abbey in

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.Victoria County History: Kent - Alien houses: the priory of Lewisham (p. 238)
/ref> The priory, a dependancy of St. Peter's Abbey and thus an alien priory, was founded in the same year.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. The priory was dissolved and its possessions confiscated, like all alien priories, under the Act of 1414 by

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, who re-granted them to his new foundation, the

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monastery

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in Surrey. 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), or on the High Street where the 17th-century mansion of the same name was later built (now Albacore Crescent south of the hospital).

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