St Lukes Campus Exeter university (geograph 1872841)

St Luke's Campus is a small university campus which is part of the

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a public university , public research university in Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of Min ...

. The School of Sport and Health Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and the Medical School are all based at St Luke's. St Luke's is also home to the Children's Health and Exercise Research Centre (CHEREC). The Centre, part of the School of Sport and Health Sciences, was awarded the

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for higher education in recognition of its eminence in paediatric physiology. This made CHEREC the first receiver of the award in sport science research.

Students Guild on St Luke's

The views of St Luke's students are represented by the Deputy President of the Students' Guild, currently Marte Billington. The Students' Guild run an information point/desk in Cross Keys on St Luke's. Cross Keys is the on-campus bar and eating area, and contains the St Luke's Cinema.

History

St Luke’s College was opened on 18 October 1854 as the new premises of the Exeter Diocesan Training School that had been established as a Church College of Education in the Cathedral Close in 1839 to train schoolmasters. Through the second half of the 19th century, the college buildings and grounds were greatly developed. St Luke's suffered a direct hit during a

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bombing raid on Exeter that destroyed a large part of the original building. The stone work has been rebuilt and is clearly visible due to a change in the colouring of the brick work. After the war the college was known as St Luke's Training College. Women students were first admitted in 1966, by which time the college was known as St Luke's College Exeter. It still had a strong Christian emphasis as a

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foundation. In 1978 the college joined the University of Exeter and ceased to be an independent Anglican college.

Gallows location

Part of the current campus car park, just to the east of College Avenue, was, from the 16th century to 1818, the site of the

Heavitree Heavitree is a historic village and parish situated formerly outside the walls of the City of Exeter in Devon, England, and is today an eastern district of that city. It was formerly the first significant village outside the city on the road to ...

gallows for

Exeter Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...

. The three convicted Bideford "witches" were hanged there on 25 August 1682; their bodies were buried nearby where, presumably, their bones still remain somewhere beneath the car park.

References

External links

Graduate School of EducationMap of the St Luke's CampusVirtual tour of St Luke's Campuswww.savestlukes.comHistory of St Lukes
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