Burgh of Bearsden

Saint Andrew's College

Saint Andrew's College ( The " Hen Houses " )

in Bearsden

These were the halls of residence

at the former St.Andrew's College

- a teacher training department of Glasgow University.

The distinctive, flat-roofed buildings

were class A under the Listed Building Act.

However they have now been demolished

and replaced by the new Bearsden Academy.

Saint Andrew's College
( The " Hen Houses " )
in Bearsden

St Andrew's College of Education
was established in 1981
the result of the merger of
Notre Dame College of Education
and Craiglockhart College.

Notre Dame College of Education
was set up in 1895
and Craiglockhart College opened in 1919
both as teacher training institutions for Catholics.

St Andrew's College of Education
was a Catholic Institute of Higher Education.
It was set up as a National Catholic College,
a witness of the Catholic Church
in Scottish Higher Education.

On 11 April 1999,
St Andrew's College of Education
merged with Glasgow University
and formed the University's Faculty of Education