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Queen's College, North Adelaide. 1. Schoolhouse. 2. Christ Church. 3. Christ Church schoolroom. In 1891 the school was taken over as a private venture by J. H. Lindon and G. L. Heinemann, and renamed "The Queen's School" in honour of Queen Victoria . James Henry Lindon, MA (8 June 1856 – 6 June 1897) was born on Jersey and educated at Rossall ...
Former Queen's School, 149 Barton Terrace - Heritage Information Sheet (327kb pdf file). Heritage information about Former Queen's School, 149 Barton Terrace, North Adelaide from Heritage of the City of Adelaide: An Illustrated Guide 1996
- 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 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. Montefiore Hill Montefiore Hill provides an excellent vantage point to look over the City of Adelaide. Near its apex, in ...
Heritage of the City of Adelaide Corporation of the City of Adelaide HOUSE (Formerly Queen's College) 146-150 Barton Terrace This building was designed in 1892 as Queen's School, becoming one of South Australia's leading private schools. The building illustrates the development of both an important private
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Books. History of Queen's College North Adelaide 1883-1949. Brian Edward O'Connor. University of Adelaide, Graduate School of Education, 2002 - Education - 224 pages. Presents the history of this boys' school chronologically, using the periods of tenure of the various principals as a basis for organizing the material. -- abstract.
