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Queen's College was a privately owned and run school for boys on Barton Terrace, North Adelaide. It ran continuously from 1891 to 1949, an Australian record for a proprietary boys' school. History
Established as Queen's School in 1874 in Jeffcott Street, the School later became known as Queen's College. It closed in 1949. The school reflects aspects of the development and change in private school education.
- School Management
- Scholars
- School Closure
- Architecture
- Significance
The school began in ad hoc fashion in 1897. Christ Church School building in Jeffcott Street was let for school use to Miss Miller in 1879 and then to a series of ministers between 1880 and 1891, the last, Reverent T. Field (1883-91), selling the goodwill to Messrs Lindon and Heineman who were to open Queen’s School. Queen’s School maintained a con...
By 1928 former pupils had gained six Rhodes scholarships and several other old scholars had gained acclaim in their field of knowledge. These old scholars included Professor Walter Duffield, the first director of the Commonwealth Observatory in Canberra, Dr Grenfell Price, and the physicist Sir William Lawrence Bragg who was the youngest-ever Nobel...
In common with most other private schools during the Depression, Queen’s College suffered heavily in the 1930s. Although it survived until 1949, the school simply could not overcome the major financial obstacle of minimum enrolments, and the school was eventually closed and sold. Memorabilia such as school honour rolls, cricket shields and scholars...
This purpose-built school building which included classrooms and laboratories was designed in 1892 by F.J. Naish, architect of Elder Hall at the University of Adelaide (see PL27) and Ambassadors Hotel in King William Street (see CBD26). Naish’s tender notice ‘… for the erection of Queen’s School, Barton Terrace’ appeared in the South Australia Regi...
The house is an important contributory element on Barton Terrace because of its domestic scale and style. It reinforces the essential residential character of the streetscape.
North Adelaide is a predominantly residential precinct and suburb of the City of Adelaide in South Australia, situated north of the River Torrens and within the Adelaide Park Lands. Laid out in a grid plan in three sections by Colonel William Light in 1837, the suburb contains many grand old mansions.
Queen’s School / Queen’s College. Designed by F J Naish, who was also the architect of Elder Hall at the University of Adelaide, the school was up and running smoothly by 1893. When the school closed at the end of 1949, it was the last privately owned boys' school in the state.
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History of Queen's College North Adelaide 1883-1949. Presents the history of this boys' school chronologically, using the periods of tenure of the various principals as a basis for...
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Queen's College North Adelaide was the longest lasting proprietary boys' college in Australia, closing in 1946. North Adelaide was the birthplace of William Lawrence Bragg, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915.
