[4] In 967, Edgar, King of England again granted 10 sulings of land to Bishop Ælfstan in return for a large sum in gold and silver.

[6] After the conquest, another expropriation was attempted by Bishop Odo of Bayeux (half-brother of William the Conqueror himself) and Archbishop Lanfranc (of Canterbury) had to intervene to restore the land to the diocese.

A historian had this to say about the original manor house: The grounds of the palace contained a Holy Well and Oratory dedicated to Saint Blaise and the site became a place of pilgrimage for centuries.

[12] In 1648, during the English Civil War – and due to an Act of Parliament which ordered the disposal of certain church property – the manor of Bromley was sold to Augustine Skinner.

[13] The manor house was again returned to the Diocese of Rochester (and its rightful incumbent, Bishop John Warner) in 1660, on the restoration of Charles II.

[1] The college closed in 1980 and, as part of a wider regeneration scheme to create a Civic Centre, the London Borough of Bromley acquired the building in the early 1980s and built a large extension, moving from their town hall into the enlarged complex in 1982.