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| Bromley College was
founded in 1666 by the Will of John Warner, Bishop of Rochester 1638-1666,
to provide housing for "twenty poore widowes of orthodoxe and
loyall clergiemen". |
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The original building
consisted of twenty houses built around a quadrangle with residences
for a Chaplain and a Treasurer.
This quadrangle, built in classical style, is often called the "Wren
Quadrangle" as at one time it was thought that Sir Christopher
Wren was the Architect. It is now Acknowledged that Captain Richard
Ryder, one of Wren's Surveyors, was responsible for the design and
construction.
The second quadrangle of twenty houses was built in the late 18th
Century from bequests of a Mrs Helen Bettenson and William Pearce,
brother of Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester 1756-1774. |
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Sheppard's College was
founded in 1840, following an appeal by the Chaplain, Thomas Scott,
to Mrs Sophia Sheppard, the wealthy widow of Dr Sheppard, Fellow of
Magdalen College, Oxford.
The Chaplain saw the problem of an unmarried clergy daughter becoming
homeless when her mother died and Mrs Sheppard provided the means
to accommodate them by building a terrace of five houses. |
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