The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Quirin in Wamberley, commonly known as Wamberley College, is a secular college in Wamberley, in Swent. Its foundation consists of a Warden, twelve Fellows Chaplain including a Subwarden and Precentor, twelve Lay Fellows, six Clerks and six Quiristers and receives income from several benefices and endowments in Swent, up to £60,000 a year in toto, allowing each fellow a considerable stipend in addition to rooms and commons. The College was founded in 1322 by the Duke of Caune to sing the canonical hours and daily masses in honour of the Virgin Mary and Saint Quirin and to pray for the family of the Lords Caune. While the daily Lady masses and masses of St. Quirin were suppressed under the New Statutes of 1683, the College still sings the Hours and Mass daily.
The College has a boys' school with 120 pupils (Commoners in addition to the Quiristers) from first to sixth form, employing masters to teach. While the Warden, Fellows and Clerks are bound to attend all hours and the High Mass, the masters and pupils of the School only need attend daily at Mattins, High Mass and Vespers. As a token of the relationship of the College with the Dukes of Caune, on recommendation of the Warden, two old boys annually are eligible to matriculate at Trinity College at the University of Aldesey by right as Scholars.
