Building    From 1619 

Dulwich College

Categories: Education, Social Welfare

Founded by Edward Alleyn as a school and almshouses. A chapel, a schoolhouse and twelve almshouses were built on Dulwich Green (see picture), and, extended and re-modelled, these buildings remain and are known as 'Old College'. The almshouses are still used for their original purpose.

In 1870 the majority of the school, Dulwich College, moved to its current site on College Road, Dulwich Common, into a building designed by Charles Barry Jr. The lower school, known as Alleyn's School, remained in the old buildings until 1887 when it moved to its current site in East Dulwich. Old boys of Dulwich College are called 'Old Alleynians'.

Famous old boys include: P. G. Wodehouse and Raymond Chandler.

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Dulwich College

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Alleyn's gift

Presented by the Estates Governors of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwi...

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College Road Tollgate

{Beneath the coat of arms of Dulwich College with the motto 'detur gloria sol...

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Dulwich College

The original buildings of Dulwich College, founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn a...

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