Schola Europaea

Schola Europaea is a teachers' training college, now a multi-lingual school, built around 1852 by Joseph Clarke, with 20th-century additions and alterations. The building features squared coursed stone and an old plain-tile complex roof, with various stone lateral and ridge stacks. A lead and copper lantern is located on the ridge to the left of the center. The structure has a U-shaped courtyard plan with an attached chapel, and later additions have closed off the courtyard. It is designed in the High Victorian Gothic style, with two storeys and an attic, and a total of 24 windows. The entrance includes glazed 20th-century double doors leading to a two-centre arched doorway positioned to the right of the center. The fenestration is complex, featuring mostly stone mullion and transom windows on the ground floor, trefoil lancets on the first floor, and gabled dormers on the roof. The chapel, which is attached by a covered cloister to the right, has four bays and underwent an extension and internal re-arrangement around 1960 by Seely and Paget, designed in the Early English style with plate tracery windows. Inside, there are several stone dog-leg staircases with wrought iron balusters and moulded wood handrails, along with some 19th-century fireplaces. The 20th-century extensions and additions to the rear are not of special architectural interest. Historically, the building was founded as the Diocesan Training College for Schoolmasters, with the foundation stone laid on October 28, 1851, by Bishop Wilberforce.