Trinity College, Bristol
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 Location within Bristol
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| Town or city | Bristol |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 51°28′40″N 2°37′54″W / 51.477781°N 2.631631°W |
| Completed | 1669 |
Trinity College, Bristol was founded as an Evangelical Anglican theological college but trains Christians of all denominations. It is located in Stoke Bishop, Bristol, England. It offers a range of full-time and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate courses which are validated by the University of Bristol, though the college sets it own curriculum. Many of its students are training for ordination in the Church of England; and hence there is a strong vocational aspect to the courses it provides.
It runs evening classes which are used by the Diocese of Bristol for its training of ordained and lay local ministers. It also has an Open Learning department; students study at home and are linked to a local study group with a tutor.
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[edit] History
Trinity College, Bristol was formed in 1971 from a merger of three evangelical colleges in Bristol: Clifton College, Dalton House with St Michaels, and Tyndale Hall. Trinity College, Bristol is rooted in the evangelical tradition (and is affiliated to the Evangelical Alliance) but offers training to Christians from a variety of theological traditions. [1]
All of the colleges had their origins in the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society (BCMS, now Crosslinks). The Bible Missionary Training College opened in Bristol in 1925, and was recognised by the Church of England in 1927. The BCMS college faced great difficulties in its early days. Its conservative evangelical constituency was numerically and financially weak. The staff split over the issue of subscription to BCMS' doctrinal basis, and those who did not view subscription as essential left to form Clifton Theological College. Subsequently, Dalton House was opened to train women. The Principal of the men's college (C.S.Carter) resigned in the early 1930s after dismissing a student. It was renamed Tyndale Hall in 1952. [2]
An earlier attempt at merger in the 1960s was poorly handled and resulted in considerable conflict.[3]
Since September 1997, Trinity College Bristol has been a member of the Bristol Federation. Its partners are Bristol Baptist College, Wesley College, and the West of England Ministerial Training Course (WEMTC).
[edit] Notable staff and alumni
- Joyce G. Baldwin - Former principal and author of numerous commentaries.
- George Carey – 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury. Principal of the college from 1982–1988.
- Philip Edgecumbe Hughes - Anglican New Testament scholar, Professor 1947-1953
- David Jackman – Former student. President of the Proclamation Trust and former Minister of Above Bar Church, Southampton.
- George Iype Kovoor - Current Principal and a Chaplain to the Queen
- J. Alec Motyer – Former principal of the college, well known as the author of several key books, including The Prophecy of Isaiah. He is also the Old Testament editor of the Bible Speaks Today series of commentaries.
- John Nolland - Influential New Testament Scholar, and visiting Professor of the University of Bristol.
- J. I. Packer – Associate principal from 1971-79. In 2005, Time Magazine named Packer one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America[4] .
- David Wenham - Notable New Testament Scholar and author.
- Gordon Wenham - Emeritus Professor of Old Testament at the University of Gloucestershire and author of many commentaries.
[edit] Stoke House
Stoke House, the building that its now known as Trinity College, has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building[5]. It was built by Sir Robert Cann and probably completed in 1669. This date is above the front door in rather untrustworthy lettering (which may have been added much later). However, the date fits with the building's style and other documentary evidence[6]. The doorway is certainly Jacobean in character, including excessively twisted columns of three wound strands, with naive Corinthian capitals containing a mask each. The spandrels above the door contain allegorical females either side of the Cann family crest. The sidewalls of the porch are typical of c.1670 with upright oval windows keyed into oblong panels, here under steep open pediments. The oak staircase within the building is characteristically mid-seventeenth century. The three ogee gables along the front roofline are also quite Jacobean in character, but the rest of house is much altered. The original cross windows (cf. J. Kip's 1712 engraving) were replaced with gothic versions c. 1750 as shown in John Turner's 1791 painting of the house. In 1872 Foster & Wood installed mullioned-and-transomed windows in double-height canted bays with projecting curved centres and strapwork cresting. They also reinstated the oval windows in the gables with reference to those in the porch. Two rooftop cupolas were removed in the twentieth century. At the rear of the building two three-story blocks were added in the seventeenth century, one at an angle to the house[7].
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Kings, 2003. "Canal, River and Rapids: Contemporary Evangelicalism in the Church of England" by Graham Kings, published in the journal Anvil Vol 20 No 3, September 2003, pp167-184. Retrieved on September 9, 2006.
- ^ "Preliminary listing of the records of the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society". http://www2.special-coll.bham.ac.uk/catalogue_handlist_BibChMSoc.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-16.
- ^ McGrath, Alister E. (1997). To know and serve God : a life of James I. Packer. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0340565713.
- ^ "Influential Evangelicals". Time Magazine. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1993235_1993243_1993310,00.html. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ^ "Stoke House, Clifton Theological College, and attached rear kitchen block". Images of England. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=380621. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
- ^ Wilkins, H. J. (1910). Transcription of the "Poor Book" of the Tithings of Westbury-On-Trym, Stoke Bishop and Shirehampton from A.D. 1656-1698. Bristol, UK: Arrowsmith.
- ^ Foyle, Andrew; Pevsner, Nikolas (2011). Somerset: North and Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England). Yale University Press. pp. 800. ISBN 9780300126587. http://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?K=9780300126587&sort=sort_title&sf1=series_exact&st1=PEVSNERARCHITECTURALGUIDESBUILDINGSOFENGLAND&m=39&dc=51.
