Queen's College, Edgbaston

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For the original Queens College, see Queen's College, Birmingham.
The Hobbiss main block and chapel
The Hobbiss main block and chapel

Queen's College (grid reference SP047843), Somerset Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, is a Church of England theological college run by The Queen's Foundation. Its courses have a strong ecumenical emphasis.[citation needed]

The college is associated with the University of Birmingham to which it is very near.

The residential block and lodge (1929-30), and chapel (1938-47) are by local architect Holland W. Hobbiss. The chapel was the first English ecclesiastical building with an altar built for the celebrant to face the congregation.[1] The college hosts the UKMT Mathematics Summer School each summer for approximately 40 students.

[edit] Origins

The college started as Queens' College in Paradise Street,[2] central Birmingham in 1828, as an Anglican-based medical school which developed a broad range of education. Eventually the non-theological departments joined the nearby Mason Science College which became the University of Birmingham, leaving Queen's College as a theological establishment, which moved to Somerset Road in 1923.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pevsner Architectural Guides - Birmingham, Andy Foster, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10731-5, p252
  2. ^ The Making of Birmingham: Being a History of the Rise and Growth of the Midland Metropolis, Robert K. Dent, Published by J. L. Allday, 1894

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Coordinates: 52°27′26″N 1°55′53″W / 52.4573, -1.9314

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