Trinity College (college of theology: 1929-1973: Glasgow, Scotland)

Trinity College , in Lynedoch Street, Woodlands Hill, Glasgow , Scotland, was opened as the Glasgow Free Church College in 1857 . A memorial to open a theology college had been presented in 1855 to the General Assembly of the Free Church by a group of Glasgow laymen, lead by Dr William Clark of Wester Moffat who had offered £20,000 if a like amount was subscribed by others. Teaching began on 4 November 1856 in a building in Thistle Street, Glasgow prior to the opening of the college building. Following the union of The Free Church and the United Presbyterian Church in 1900 , it became the Glasgow College of the United Free Church of Scotland .

The college and an adjoining church were built to the designs of Charles Wilson , a Glasgow architect who planned the layout and design of the terraces in the area. The church was destroyed by fire in 1903 and, when the congregation was eventually united with another, the shell of the church was acquired for an extension to the college, opening in 1911 . The college thereafter consisted of both twin towers of the church and the campanile of the college. The extension made possible a Library Hall at the level of the former gallery of the church and an Assembly Hall and two classrooms at ground level.

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