Trinity College (University of Melbourne)
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Trinity College is a residential college of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and was founded in 1872 on a site which had been granted to the Church of England. Situated to the north of the university, Trinity's various stone and brick buildings surround a large grassed area known as the Bulpadock, making for a very pleasant environment for its 269 resident students to enjoy.
The college was affiliated with the university in 1876, and the Trinity Theological School was founded in 1877. With the establishment of the Trinity Women's Hostel (later to become Janet Clarke Hall) in 1886, Trinity admitted women as resident students, making it the first university college in Australia to do so.
The college's main buildings were built as follows:
- 1870: "Provost's Lodge", now the Leeper Building
- 1878: Bishops' Building
- 1880: Dining hall
- 1883-87: Clarke Building
- 1914-17: Horsfall Chapel
- 1933: Behan Building
- 1958: The Memorial Building (Jeopardy)
- 1963-65: Cowan Building
- 1995-96: Burge Building
In 1989, the Trinity College Foundation Studies Program was set up to prepare international students for entry to university courses. Foundation Studies presently caters to over 800 students, although they do not live on campus.
Trinity College has a Choir which sings for services in the Chapel and around Melbourne, and tours internationally. The Choir has made a number of radio broadcasts and CD recordings.
Since 1956, Trinity College has provided liturgical hospitality to a local Anglican congregation known as the Canterbury Fellowship (http://www.canterburyfellowship.org.au/). In former years this arrangement worked well, with Trinity College Choir providing weekday services (in term) and Canterbury Fellowship on weekends (full year). In the early 1990s Trinity College moved the focus of its services to Sunday in favor of weekday services, and a somewhat unique situation arose with two Sunday evensongs by different choirs each week during term. Since May 2005 the College and Canterbury Fellowship have agreed to "share" responsibility for Evensong, with the Choir of Trinity College singing during term and the Choir of the Canterbury Fellowship singing at all other times.
External links
- Trinity College (http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/)
- The Canterbury Fellowship (http://www.canterburyfellowship.org.au/)