A collegiate church and hospital on the north side of Cheapside on the site now occupied by Mercers' Hall and Chapel.
Founded by Thomas Fitzthebald de Heil and Agnes his wife, sister to Thomas Becket, in the reign of Henry II. Also known as 'St. Thomas of Acres'. Founded as church in 1227.
Following the dissolution of the monasteries, the Mercers’ Company purchased the site from Henry VIII in 1542 and continued the school as the Mercers' School.
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Hospital of St Thomas of Acon
Mercers’ school, 1542 – 1959 In 1542 the Mercers’ Company purchased the site ...
Elizabethan seafarer. With Robert Bell he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers.
A primary school, demolished to make way for the Bridge Academy. Our photo shows a 2014 reunion taking place in the school hall. We believe the building appears (in the distance) in a photo on Spit...
Co-churchwarden of St Jude's in 1911. Jonathan Geach Tinner was born in 1847 in Tywardreath, Cornwall, the second of the three children of Richard Tinner (1806-1891) and Mary Ann Tinner née Blowey...
Moved from Spital Square in 1975 to the building in Bow Road.  Spitalfields Life reports on a 2013 school reunion at the old building, which is now Galvin Restaurant - old photos and reminiscences.
From the school's website: "In 1666, after the Great Fire of London, many inhabitants of the Old City of London moved to the medieval town of Westminster. With its congested and squalid alleys, the...
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