St Peter's College, Saltley
St Peter's College, Saltley was a teacher training establishment located in Saltley, Birmingham, England. Today the former college building has now been refurbished and sub-divided into a multi-use facility, combining homes, offices and meeting rooms. History Founded in 1850, in part with help from MP Charles Adderley, 1st Baron Norton, Charles Adderley (later Baron Norton) as modern Saltley developed, it first opened as the Worcester Diocesan Training School, later known as the Worcester, Lichfield & Hereford Diocesan Training College and then Saltley Training College. Designed by Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival architect Benjamin Ferrey, it was built in a Tudor Revival architecture style format of a University of Oxford college, created around a Quadrangle (architecture), quadrangle at the top of College Road. It housed only 30 trainee teachers initially, which quickly rose to 300 students. The college had its own school, known initially as the Worcester Diocesan P ...
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