Madras College
The Madras College is a secondary school in the Scottish town of St Andrews in the Council Area Fife . In 1959, his main building was included in the Scottish monument lists as an individual monument in the highest monument category A.
history
In a military school of the East India Company for orphans in Madras , India , the clergyman and educator Andrew Bell from St Andrews developed the Madras system as an efficient form of teaching for large class sizes. The Church of England implemented the system in England and Wales . Due to the differences in the school system and population structure, there was little need in Scotland for the introduction of the Madras system. As early as 1823, Bell had unsuccessfully advertised the introduction of its system in Scotland. Shortly before his death in 1831, Bell donated the sum of £ 120,000 (today the equivalent of 12,100,000 euros), among other things, to educating poor children in major Scottish and English cities. The largest single item of the sum, £ 50,000, was devoted to the establishment of Madras College in St Andrews. The city had already approved the merger of various existing secondary schools to form Madras College. In 1831 the site of a medieval ruin was bought for this purpose .
Although the construction work according to a design by the Scottish architect William Burn lasted until 1835, the school began to be used in December 1833. The original school consisted of different units and there was no joint principal. Madras College was home to elementary and secondary schools as well as state-funded and private schools. In the beginning, the units were spatially separated and the premises were adapted to requirements, but in the 1850s the large west wing was available for teaching around 400 poor schoolchildren, and the separation visibly diluted over time. After long disputes following an Education Act in 1872, Burgh St Andrews reopened its own school and Madras College positioned itself as an affordable private school. As a result of the college's generous scholarship policy, his financial reliance on the County Fife regional government increased. In 1929 the school ended in its previous form.
That year, Fife County took over Madras College and turned it into a government-funded secondary school. In the first half of the 1950s and 1961 the school was expanded. 1963 went to a secondary school in Madras College. In order to take account of the increased number of students, an additional, spatially separated campus was built in 1967.
description
Madras College is on South Street ( A918 ) opposite the Bell Street junction in central St Andrews. Burn, who had already designed numerous, mainly classical , school buildings, took the zeitgeist into account and decided for Madras College for a design in the Jacobean style , a variety of neo-renaissance architecture.
The new campus was built on Kilrymont Road on the southern edge of St Andrews.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ a b c d Entry on Madras College in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
Web links
- Web presence of Madras College
- Entry on Madras College in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 56 ° 20 ′ 18 ″ N , 2 ° 47 ′ 52.6 ″ W.