Notre Dame College of Education (Glasgow)

Notre Dame College of Education was a Catholic teacher training college in Glasgow, Scotland. It was opened in 1895 as a women's college by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, admitting male students from 1967 and merging with Craiglockhart College in 1981 to become St Andrew's College of Education. St Andrew's College become the Faculty of Education of the University of Glasgow in 1999.

Notre Dame College of Education
TypeTeacher training college
Active1895–1981
Religious affiliation
Roman Catholic
Address
Stockiemuir Road
,
Bearsden
,
Scotland

55.9283°N 4.3458°W / 55.9283; -4.3458

Dowanhill

In 1894 Archbishop Eyre of Glasgow invited Mary of St Wilfrid (Mary Lescher) and the Sisters of Notre Dame to come from the Mother House in Liverpool to establish a community in Glasgow.[1] The Notre Dame Training College for women was opened in 1893 at Dowanhill in the West End of Glasgow, and began teaching in January 1895.[1] It was the first Catholic teacher training college in Scotland: teachers at Catholic schools in Scotland had previously been trained at St Mary's College for men in London and Mount Pleasant College for women in Liverpool.[2] Lescher served as principal from 1893 until her retirement in 1919. In 1897 Notre Dame School was opened as a private secondary and Montessori school.[1] In 1920 the Catholic colleges in Scotland became the responsibility of a National Committee for the Training of Teachers, with four provincial committees, corresponding to the four ancient universities of Scotland. The college site at Dowanhill closed in 1979.[2]

Bearsden

In 1874, the Archbishop of Glasgow, Charles Eyre originally established St Peter's College, a Catholic seminary, in Partickhill. In 1892, he decided to move it to Bearsden, a town northwest of Glasgow.[3]

In 1966, to replace the seminary, a new campus for Notre Dame College of Education was built on the site. It was designed by the same architects as St Peter's Seminary, Cardross, the firm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia (GKC). It was built in a U-shape, with two teaching blocks, a physical education building and five student accommodation buildings. The complex was opened in 1969.[4] Male students were admitted from 1967.[2] On 4 March 1998, the residential blocks were registered as category A listed buildings.[5]

In 1981, Notre Dame College merged with Craiglockhart College to form St Andrew's College of Education, a national Catholic college[2] which joined with University of Glasgow to become its Faculty of Education in 1999.[6] In 2002, the teaching college was relocated and the site was declared surplus to university requirements.[4] After negotiations between Historic Scotland and East Dunbartonshire Council, it was decided to demolish the site and build residential accommodation and a new Bearsden Academy.[7]

Notable alumni

References
  1. Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "Mary Adela Lescher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48666. Retrieved 16 June 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "Records of St Andrew's College of Education, higher education institution, Glasgow, Scotland c". isc Archive Hub. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  3. Williamson, Clifford (2016). The History of Catholic Intellectual Life in Scotland, 1918–1965. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 115. ISBN 9781137333476.
  4. "St. Andrew's College (formerly Notre Dame College)". Risky Buildings. Twentieth Century Society. Archived from the original on 8 June 2007. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  5. "Duntocher Road, St Andrew's College, Eyre Hall, Consuela Hall, Ogilvie House, Lescher Hall and Julie, Glasgow". British Listed Buildings. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  6. Buie, Elizabeth (6 April 1999). "A degree of concern over college merger". The Glasgow Herald. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  7. Williamson, Kenneth (2010). Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites. Taylor & Francis. pp. 129–158. ISBN 9781136948336.
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