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about 1840 the High Pavement (with the shops thereon) was 
constructed. In 1865 the new ecclesiastical district of St. Stephen 
was formed, and the church was built by the Rev. S: Russell 
Davies, M.A., from the designs of Sir Gilbert Scott, in the style of 
the opening years of the 13th century. From an architectural * 
point of view St. Stephen’s is undoubtedly the best church in the 
parish. The ground on which it is built was marshy, and this has 
hitherto prevented the completion of the building with a tower, 
which would no doubt add to the appearance of this part of the 
town. The boundary between Lee and Lewisham was formed by 
the small stream alluded to above, and passing behind St. Stephen’s 
Church came down the southern side of St. Stephen’s Road to the 
Quaggy, which from this point forms the boundary between the 
two parishes as far as Manor Park. 5 
Turning to the western side of the High Street, at the 
“‘ Roebuck,” we have Rennell Street and Molesworth Street, which 
were originally small villa roads, which sprang up soon after the 
opening of Lewisham Railway Station. 
At the corner of Rennell Street stood the Lewisham Toll-gate 
House. This was set up in 1849, and removed in 1866. : 
The small terrace of four shops from the corner of Rennell 
Street date from about the same period as that thoroughfare, but 
those which follow are part of Old Lewisham. They consisted of 
three small wooden houses, long since turned into shops, and three 
brick houses of the 18th century, which have shared the same fate. 
The centre house (now the ‘‘ Joiners’ Arms”’) is being rebuilt as these 
lines are being written.* Three shops, with gables and windows of 
mid-Victorian Tudor, come next; they probably occupy the site of 
older houses whose memorial is vanished. Adjoining the shops 
just mentioned was an older house occupied by the Shoves, father 
and son, for more than half-a-century. It was puiled down and 
rebuilt in 1907. The double-fronted villa which is the next building 
southwards, was converted into a large shop, which has in its turn 
been divided into two. 
We have now reached the block of buildings which covers the 
site of the old ‘Lion and Lamb” Inn and its stables, whiist 
opposite us, on the site now occupied by the Bank and other 
shops, was Lewisham (or Watch-house) Green, on which stood the 
Cage or Lock-up, and the Village Stocks. 
The ‘‘ Lion and Lamb ”’ was one of the old Lewisham hostelries, 
nearly all of which have been rebuilt in recent years. It is mentioned 
in the Parish Registers of 1700, and is no doubt even older. At that 
date it was held by the Holmes family,-and it is recorded that Mrs. 
Holmes planted a yew tree in the churchyard in memory of her 
husband. In 1732 there is the baptism of *‘ Thomas a foundling at 
the Lyon and Lamb doore.” One wonders which name was 
adopted for him! The house was a long low building of the type 
* Others have since been rebuilt at this point. 
