Pilgrim House
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Pilgrim House
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 24 May 2010
Built in 1860 by Henry Cooper, a wealthy Fleet Street taverner, intended as a marital home, but in fact the wedding never took place so he rarely stayed here. Instead it was mainly rented out, one of the tenants being the stained art artist Henry Holiday, who lived here while working on two windows in St Mary's Church in nearby Westerham. In 1890 the house was sold to the Church Missionary Society, who converted it into a children's home. It subsequently became a private school until 1939. It then became the wartime offices of the Woolwich Building Society. It then reverted to being a children's home, under the auspices of the John Grooms charity. It has now been converted to residential use.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.28758
Longitude
0.076019