Bourne College
Bourne College was a Primitive Methodist college at Quinton, near Birmingham, England.
Like its elder sister, Elmfield College in York, Bourne College was established as a school for the sons of Primitive Methodists, beginning its life in 1876 in the redundant Roman Catholic St Chad’s Grammar School in Summer Hill, Birmingham, but soon outgrowing that accommodation and moving to 19 acres (77,000 m2) at Quinton.
This location was chosen, according to the inaugural speech of Rev George Middleton, FGS, the first governor of Bourne College (a post in which he combined the duties of chaplain, bursar, caretaker and general handyman) for one prime reason - students would have plenty of fresh and pure water, and would be removed from the temptations of town life, which would form one of the greatest encouragements to their parents, who were naturally anxious that their sons should be preserved from corrupting associations.
A company was formed, with a capital of £25,000 in 5,000 shares of £5, its object to establish a college or school chiefly for the education under sound Protestant religious influences of young gentlemen.
Messrs D. Smith & Sons of Birmingham were appointed architects, E. Walton of Smethwick was awarded the building contract and on 6 June 1881 the foundation stones for the Queen Anne style building, its principal entrance in a 60-foot clocktower, were laid. Bourne College, which opened in Quinton in 1882, took its name from Hugh Bourne (1772–1852) one of the founders of Primitive Methodism, who had visited the village on a number of occasions in the mid-nineteenth century.
The buildings themselves were extensive. A school room, dining room, class room, piano rooms, a large chemical laboratory, lavatory and cloak room are on the ground floor; the first floor being devoted to three large dormitories, bath rooms and lavatories. The servants' department consists of a large kitchen with serving room and scullery attached, servants’ hall, various store rooms, pantries and dairy on the ground floor, and bedrooms occupying the first floor. Adjoining the College is the Governor’s house. Apartments are arranged for the sick and for the repairing of clothes. A spacious kitchen court contains the laundry, wash-house and engine house, and a large drying-ground and covered playground are provided. Water is obtained from a well and pumped into a tank in the roof over the bath room and the College is warmed by hot water apparatus.
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