Bacon’s College is an academy sponsored by the Church of England with a proud history of educating the young people of Bermondsey for over 300 years.
‘Bacon’s School’ started out above the porch of the church of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, in 1703. Wealthy leather merchant, Josiah Bacon, left a large sum of money in his will to build a free school for poor boys in his home town to ‘teach spelling, arithmetic & merchant’s accomplishments’.