St Matthias, Bristol

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name= St Matthias
location_town=Bristol
location_country=England
map_type=Bristol
latitude=51.4845
longitude=-2.5299
architect=John Bevan
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construction_start_date=1851
completion_date=1852
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style=Gothic Revival
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St Matthias,(gbmapping|ST633763) (known by its students as St Matts), is a campus of the University of the West of England, and is located in the suburb of Fishponds in Bristol. It houses the university's faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences. The campus has some attractive Victorian Gothic buildings, and is set around a quad. It also has a refectory, a gymnasium, and a bar in which various music events are staged.

As home to the School of Drama, several small theatre companies exist on the campus. The Bristol Centre for Performing Arts bases its drama group here, as does the UWE Drama Society. The Regional History Centre is also based at St Matthias, and consists primarily of members of the Faculty of Humanities' School of History. [ [http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/regionhistory/rhcnew/index.htm The Regional History Centre at the University of the West of England] ]

The campus was previously a teacher training college, originally called the Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Training Institution for School Mistresses.

It was built in 1851-2 by John Bevan with Jonathan Clarke, in a Gothic Revival style and the building was extended in 1903. It is a grade II* listed building [IoEentry|380068|St Matthias College at "Images of England"] and the Lodge is listed Grade II. [IoEentry|380069|Lodge to St Matthias College at "Images of England"]

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