Old Central School was a school on Wimbledon Common, south-west London, founded in 1758. It closed in the early 1960s when its role was taken over by Bishop Gilpin School, a new school on a different site in Wimbledon.
The original octagonal school building in Camp Road, built in 1758, was still standing in 2012 and in use as part of a private school, The Study.
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