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unusual facts about St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School


New Kent Road

The last building on the north side of New Kent Road is St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School on land given by Lord LLangatock (of the Rolls family) to the ancient Southwark grammar school foundation which was required to provide a girls school to supplement its teaching of boys.


Colin Halkett

Halkett became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1821 and was the first Lieutenant Governor to reside in the St Saviour Government House, still in use today.

Katy Hill

She gained 9 'O' levels and 4 'A' Levels at St. Edward's Church of England School in Romford, London and worked in a record shop before she started presenting.

Lawrence Scott

Between 1973 and 2006 Scott worked as a teacher (of English and Drama) at various schools in London and in Trinidad, including Sedgehill, London; Thomas Calton Comprehensive, London; Presentation College, San Fernando, Trinidad; Aranguez Junior Secondary, Trinidad; Tulse Hill Comprehensive and Archbishop Tenison’s, London.

Pitkerro

The oldest, St Saviour's RC High School, closed in June 2008 due to decreasing pupil numbers and merged with Lawside Academy at the start of the 2008/9 school year to form St. Paul's Academy.

Samuel Daukes

St Saviour's Church, Tetbury, (GLOS): 1845–48, Gothic Revival; the clergy house (27–29 Church St.) is also attributed to Daukes

St Saviour's Chapel

In 1975, the parishioners offered the building to the Christchurch Diocese and the decision was made to give the chapel to Cathedral Grammar School.

St Saviour's Dock

John Stow, a 16th-century English historian and antiquarian had the following to say about the area,

St Saviour's Grammar School

On May 16, 1562 the parishioners paid £42 for a thousand-year lease from Matthew Smith on a building associated with the Green Dragon Inn, which had previously been owned by Lady Cobham.

St Saviour's RC High School

It remained a popular and thriving school for many years, producing such success stories as pop Band Danny Wilson 80s top ten hit Mary's Prayer fame, chess Grand Master Paul Motwani, Commonwealth Games Gold medallist Liz McColgan and entrepreneur Christiaan van der Kuyl, all of whom who remained closely associated with the school until its closure.

St Saviour's, Pimlico

In 1882, there was a major restoration called by a former churchwarden "the beautifying of the church": the galleries were removed, the arcade work was added to the sanctuary and the East window filled with stained glass designed, by the vicar’s son (Romaine Walker) and made by Clayton Bell, representing Christ in Majesty.

St Saviour's, Walmer

St Saviour's is a church on the seafront of Walmer, Kent, United Kingdom.

It was built in 1848, in the Neo-Gothic architectural style, as a chapel of ease for the town's boatmen (who, in the days of sail, took supplies out to vessels in the Downs) and to take the pressure off Old St Mary's (previously the parish's only church).

St. Paul's R.C. Academy

The school was established in 2009 as a merger between Lawside Academy and St. Saviours High School.


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