The ancestor of Wren’s was in fact Home Boarders – the School’s first day house, named to try to conceal the fact that more and more pupils were attending Westminster as day boys. The house had a purpose-built home at Number 1, Dean’s Yard, but this building later passed to the Abbey, and in the 1940s Ashburnham and Home Boarders were briefly merged in evacuation, as wartime numbers declined. With the return to Westminster and to normality after the war, the two were divided once more by the creation of Wren’s house in 1948. Wren’s day rooms are situated on the lower floors of the College Dormitory, a building originally conceived by their namesake and Old Westminster, Sir Christopher Wren, though built to the design of his pupil Burlington.
Facts and Figures
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Housemaster:
Ms Sam Clarkson (English)| Founded | 1877 as ‘Home Boarders’; re-named Wren’s in 1948 |
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| House Type | Day |
| Total Pupils | 75 |
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"Wren's is a lively house that benefits from its location just off Yard (and down the corridor from our closest friend and neighbour, Dryden's) with views from each day room looking out onto the ever-serene College Garden and Parliament's Victoria Tower. Each year group is allocated a day room in Wren's, which means Wrenites, and indeed visitors from other houses, always know where to find some friendly peers. We are the only house to celebrate our namesake's birthday, and we celebrate Sir Christopher Wren every October with cake, treats and pupil performances. Wrenites are close-knit and friendly, and particularly keen to engage in collective endeavours, whether it be inter-house sports, our yearly House Concert with Dryden's, pupil-led house plays, Fusball competitions, or our House Family mornings. We even have a theme-tune, thanks to one of our intrepid Sixth Form musicians! "
— Ms Sam Clarkson, Wren's Housemaster