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Bishop Feild College (originally Church of England Academy; formerly Church of England College and Bishop Feild Elementary; currently Bishop Feild School), founded in 1844, is a school in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Although it's not the same school that now bears his name on Bond Street, the creation of this school marks the beginning of Bishop Feild College in Newfoundland. The school attracted primarily middle to upper class boys from St. John's, and the sons of wealthy outport families.
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Bishop Feild College is a 2 storey brick and limestone building built in the Gothic Revival style. Commissioned by Bishop Edward Feild in 1928, the school is one of the early collegiate style buildings in St. John’s. This designation is restricted to the footprint of the building.
Bishop Feild College is designated as a Registered Heritage Structure due to its architectural and historic value: Bishop Feild College is architecturally valuable because it presents one of the finest examples of the Collegiate Gothic style in Newfoundland. Designed to function as an English style school, the building also employs man traditional ...
All those elements that are representative of the Collegiate Gothic Revival style of architecture including: - crenellation; - rusticated stone. -use of Indiana limestone; -window placement; -keystone trim around windows; -limestone quoining at corners; -plaques around entranceway representing the coats of arms of the city, the school, the diocese ...
Bishop Feild College was founded by The Rt. Rev. Edward Feild, Bishop of Newfoundland, in 1844. The first yearbook (magazine) was published in 1893 by the headmaster of the time Dr. William Walker Blackall. It was called The Church of England College Magazine which later became The Feildian.
The renaming was in honour of Bishop Edward Feild, a school inspector and the second bishop of Newfoundland. The school represented one of the few places children could get a high-quality education in St. John’s for most of the 19th century. Feild was aware of the lack of quality educational opportunities in the community and set up a school ...
Bishop Feild College is a two-storey brick and limestone building built in the Gothic Revival style. Commissioned by Bishop Edward Feild in 1928, the school is one of the early collegiate style buildings in St. John’s. This designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
Bishop Feild College is a two-storey concrete building with brick and limestone overlay, built in 1928 in the Gothic Revival style. The building sits on a large lot on Bond Street in downtown St. John’s, NL.
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