Spring Hill College, Moseley, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Created | Updated Jan 6, 2003
Spring Hill Congregational College is built on the corner of Wake Green Road and College Road about 1 mile from the centre of Moseley.
The plot of land on which the college stands was purchased for £2000 between 1847 and 1854 by the Mansfield family of Spring Hill, Ladywood, Birmingham and covers approximately 20 acres.
The college was designed by Joseph James and built by George Myers with a budget of £10000 during the period 1854 to 1857.
On 24 June, 1857, Spring Hill College was opened to train young men for the Congregationalist ministry.
In 1889 the college relocated to what was to become Mansfield College, Oxford.
From 1889 it is not known what the college buildings were used for until in 1892 the site became Pine Dell Hydropathic establishment. At this time the surrounding grounds were opened to the public as Moseley Botanical Gardens.
During 1904 to 1914 William Ross, the owner of Pine Dell lived at the college until the outbreak of World War One when the building was taken over as Moseley Military Barracks (recruitment).
When the recruiters left in 1918 the buildings were renamed Nazareth House and used by the Sisters of Nazareth as an orphange until 1920.
1921 saw the Ministry of Labour move in for 2 years, when, in 1923 the Borough Council took over and opened Moseley Secondary School for boys.
Moseley Boys Grammar school, as Spring Hill College came to be known, was merged with Moseley Mixed Secondary school in 1974.
The plot of land on which the college stands was purchased for £2000 between 1847 and 1854 by the Mansfield family of Spring Hill, Ladywood, Birmingham and covers approximately 20 acres.
The college was designed by Joseph James and built by George Myers with a budget of £10000 during the period 1854 to 1857.
On 24 June, 1857, Spring Hill College was opened to train young men for the Congregationalist ministry.
In 1889 the college relocated to what was to become Mansfield College, Oxford.
From 1889 it is not known what the college buildings were used for until in 1892 the site became Pine Dell Hydropathic establishment. At this time the surrounding grounds were opened to the public as Moseley Botanical Gardens.
During 1904 to 1914 William Ross, the owner of Pine Dell lived at the college until the outbreak of World War One when the building was taken over as Moseley Military Barracks (recruitment).
When the recruiters left in 1918 the buildings were renamed Nazareth House and used by the Sisters of Nazareth as an orphange until 1920.
1921 saw the Ministry of Labour move in for 2 years, when, in 1923 the Borough Council took over and opened Moseley Secondary School for boys.
Moseley Boys Grammar school, as Spring Hill College came to be known, was merged with Moseley Mixed Secondary school in 1974.
