Western College, in

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, England, opened on 27 September 1906 as a theological college for the

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. The building was designed by the Bristol architect

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, and given Grade II* listing in 1966. It closed in 1968, and the building was subsequently used as the HQ of the

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, and since 1993 as a medical practice. Western College Bristol staircase 1906

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