Stewart's Melville College

Edinburgh

The Old College opened in 1855 as Daniel Stewart’s Hospital for 50 destitute boys. In 1870 the Edinburgh Merchant Company turned the Hospital into a fee-paying day school and changed the name to Daniel Stewart’s College remodelling the building into a state-of-the-art teaching institution.

The old open courtyard at the north side of the building was eventually roofed over and this reopened in 2007 following a multi-million pound rebuild to create a Performing Arts Centre. There are other fine rooms such as the library, formerly the Chapel and the Principal’s Study.

The Old College and Queensferry Road campus remains one of the finest education estates in Edinburgh, ably demonstrating the transition in the design of school buildings to accommodate prevailing educational requirements.

Today Stewart’s Melville College is the home to a unique archive collection which illuminates the development of education from the early 19th Century to the present day. Visitors will be given access not only to the Old College buildings but also an exhibition of selected archive material.

 

Activities 

Guided tours of the old school buildings and a visit to a temporary exhibition of archive material. Tea and coffee will also be provided. Please make an online booking for selected time slots for the tour via this link  https://www.trybooking.com/uk/DTWC.

Facilities

• Disabled WC
• WC
• Refreshments
• Parking
• Limited Access