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54-587: Battersea College may refer to: Battersea College of Domestic Science (1948 to 1965), predecessor of London South Bank University Battersea College of Education (1965 to 1976), predecessor of London South Bank University Battersea College of Technology (1956 to 1966), predecessor of the University of Surrey Battersea Training College (1840 to 1879), later St John's College, Battersea, predecessor of Plymouth Marjon University [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

108-410: A by-law imposing a fine of £400 upon any one who should refuse to be a candidate for sheriff, and a fine of £600 upon any person who, after being elected sheriff, refused to serve. Then they went to work and elected a lot of Dissenters, one after another, and kept it up until they had collected £15,000 in fines; and there stands the stately Mansion House to this day, to keep the blushing citizen in mind of

162-606: A clear knowledge that they would not serve, and with the sole purpose of extorting money. One of those whom they selected was blind; another was bedridden." Some tried to appeal, but the process was immensely risky and costly, with the City holding all the cards. Eventually a man named Evans began a challenge which lasted ten years; in 1767, the House of Lords, drawing on the Toleration Act 1688 , agreed with Lord Mansfield and ruled to curtail

216-459: A day to the homeless of Southwark during this period. From 1945 to 1953, British painter David Bomberg taught art at the Polytechnic forming the ' Borough Group ' of artists with his pupils in 1946. In 1956, the Polytechnic was designated a Regional College of Technology and Dr J E Garside was installed as the new Principal until 1965, when Vivian Pereira-Mendoza took over. Further extensions to

270-491: A flagship university. In 1990, the Polytechnic was accredited for Research Degrees and in 1991 the Central Catering College at Waterloo and South West London College merged with it. In 1992, the newly created Baroness Perry (August 1991) became the University's first Vice-Chancellor. In 1992, the Polytechnic was granted university status and accordingly changed its name to South Bank University. That year also saw

324-428: A long past and lamented day when a band of Yankees slipped into London and played games of the sort that has given their race a unique and shady reputation among all truly good and holy peoples that be in the earth. The Mansion House has three main storeys over a rusticated basement. The entrance facade has a portico with six Corinthian columns, supporting a pediment with a tympanum sculpture by Sir Robert Taylor, in

378-545: A monument of the unjust manner in which Dissenters were treated in the last century" (i.e. the 18th, in contrast to his own 19th, century). William Edward Hartpole Lecky in his History of England during the Eighteenth Century (1878) describes the funding of the construction of the Mansion House as "a very scandalous form of persecution". There are over one hundred livery companies , the senior members of which form

432-785: A poster featuring the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the stand erected by the students from the South Bank Atheist Society during the Fresher's week, claiming it was " religiously offensive ". This action drew criticism from the British Humanist Association which claimed it amounted to "petty censorship in the name of offence". The LSBU-sponsored University Academy of Engineering South Bank opened its doors to students in September 2014. The purpose-built facility

486-504: A seal based on the Bridge House emblem of the City of London and a motto taken from Ecclesiastes — "Do it with thy Might". A gala event was held to mark the occasion which was widely reported in the press because of Lord Rosebery 's speech on the banning of smoking in the new Institute. One of the speeches made included the hope that "the Polytechnic would do its share towards perfecting many

540-464: A special electorate known as Common Hall . In 1748 the City of London Corporation devised a Catch-22 situation to raise money, passing a by-law levying a heavy fine on any man who refused to stand for election, or who, once elected to office, refused to serve. In order to serve as a Sheriff of the City of London , the individual had to have "taken the sacrament according to the Anglican rite " within

594-495: A valuable gem found in the slums of London". The Polytechnic specialised in courses that reflected local trades including leather tanning, typography, metalwork, electrical engineering, laundry, baking, and boot & shoe manufacture. Instruction was also given in art, science, elocution, literature and general knowledge and the Polytechnic held public lectures by the likes of George Bernard Shaw , J. A. Hobson , Henry M. Stanley , and Ralph Vaughan Williams . On 10 October 1894,

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648-757: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Battersea College of Domestic Science London South Bank University ( LSBU ) is a public university in Elephant and Castle , London . It is based in the London Borough of Southwark , near the South Bank of the River Thames , from which it takes its name. Founded in 1892 as the Borough Polytechnic Institute , it achieved university status in 1992 under

702-498: Is in the Walworth area of Camberwell and can accommodate 150 students aged 11–19. Lambeth College is intending to merge with the University. The main campus populates a triangular section of roads in the Borough of Southwark , immediately north of the Elephant and Castle . London's South Bank is a short tube or bus journey away from Waterloo or London Bridge . To the north of

756-636: The Beijing Institute of Technology , Hunan University , Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications , Northwestern Polytechnical University , and the National Academy of Education Administration. The collaborative educational programmes both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels have been running for over ten years with the Chinese partners. LSBU established the first Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2007. In November 2016,

810-570: The First World War , the Polytechnic manufactured munitions and gas masks for the war effort and ran courses for the army. After the War, the National Certificate system was taken up, engineering courses were offered to women in the 1920s and printing classes were dropped and run at Morley College. J W Bispham was elected the new Principal in 1922 when C T Millis retired and a rebuilding scheme

864-680: The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 . In September 2003, the university underwent its most recent name change to become London South Bank University (LSBU) and has since opened several new centres including the School of Health and Social Care, the Centre for Efficient and Renewable Energy in Buildings (CEREB), a new Student Centre, an Enterprise Centre, and a new media centre Elephant Studios. The university has 16,840 students and 1,700 staff. In November 2016,

918-662: The Lord Mayor of London . It is a Grade I listed building . Designed by George Dance in the Palladian style , it was built primarily in the 1740s. The Mansion House is used for some of the City of London 's most formal official functions , including two annual white tie dinners. At the Easter banquet, the main speaker is the Foreign Secretary , who then receives a reply from the Dean of

972-763: The Polytechnic of the South Bank in 1970, South Bank Polytechnic in 1987, South Bank University in 1992 and London South Bank University in 2003. The university has also merged with a number of other educational institutions. In 1888, Edric Bayley, a local solicitor and member of the London School Board , set up the South London Polytechnics Committee whose members included the Lord Mayor of London , Archbishop of Canterbury , Lord Salisbury , Lord Rosebery and Sir Lyon Playfair . The committee

1026-553: The "Mayor's Nest" (a pun on "mare's nest") and "Noah's Ark". In 1795 George Dance the Younger re-roofed the central courtyard, and had the "Noah's Ark" demolished. In the same year, the original grand staircase was removed to make way for a further two rooms. In 1835 the entrance steps were reduced to one flight, and in 1842 the "Mayor's Nest" was demolished after the ballroom was reconstructed. The Lord Mayor's private entrance in Walbrook

1080-576: The Borough Polytechnic Institute. In May that year, the South London Polytechnics Institutes Act was passed, so that by June 1891 the governing structure and general aims of the new Institute had been created. These aims were "the promotion of the industrial skills, general knowledge, health, and well-being of young men and women" and also for "instruction suitable for persons intending to emigrate". W. M. Richardson

1134-638: The Borough Polytechnic between 1945 and 1954. One of the university's halls of residence, David Bomberg House , carries his name and a handful of his works are on display at the University. Major paintings by Bomberg were acquired by the Tate Gallery after his death. London South Bank University works in partnership with institutions in the UK, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia. It currently works closely with

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1188-436: The Centre for Efficient and Renewable Energy in Buildings (CEREB). The building also houses skills laboratories for the University's nursing students. Further campus developments included a new Student Centre in 2012, followed by an Enterprise Centre in 2013. In 2016 LSBU opened its new media centre, Elephant Studios at LSBU. On 1 January 2014, Dave Phoenix was appointed Vice-Chancellor. In 2014 university officials removed

1242-512: The City authorities, all Church of England men, found a way to tax those of other Christian denominations, particularly the Rational Dissenters . A Unitarian named Samuel Sharpe , banker by day and amateur Egyptologist by night, wrote about it in the 1830s, striking a blow against the Test and Corporate Acts . The article was republished in 1872. Sharpe argues that the Mansion House "remains as

1296-573: The City's abuse of power. In order to avoid civil disabilities such as this financially ruinous persecution, some Dissenters were known to take Communion in their parish church once a year; in the phraseology of the time, "occasional conformity" (see Occasional Conformity Act 1711 ). Thomas Abney rose to be Lord Mayor in this fashion. The American author Mark Twain recounts the story in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889): It reminded me of something I had read in my youth about

1350-759: The Diplomatic Corps , i.e. the longest-serving ambassador. In early June, it is the turn of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to give his or her "Mansion House Speech" about the state of the British economy. The most famous was the Mansion House Speech of 1911 by David Lloyd George , which warned the German Empire against opposing British influence during the period leading up to the First World War . The Mansion House

1404-480: The East London Borough of Newham . Around 12% of students are from overseas, which equate to over 3,000 EU and other international students, from more than 130 countries. 56% of the student population are from ethnic minorities and over 80% of the students are classified as mature (21 or over when they start their course). Mansion House, London The Mansion House is the official residence of

1458-466: The Lord Mayor in one of the City livery company halls. Dance won a competition over designs solicited from James Gibbs and Giacomo Leoni , and uninvited submissions by Batty Langley and Isaac Ware . Construction was slowed down by the discovery of springs on the site, which meant piles had to be sunk to lay adequate foundations. The original building had two clerestory roof extensions, nicknamed

1512-834: The Lord Mayor is the chief magistrate of the City while in office. There were eleven holding cells (ten for men and one, nicknamed "the birdcage", for women). A famous prisoner here was the early 20th-century suffragette women's rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst . The Mansion House is home to the Harold Samuel Collection of Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth Century Paintings , described as "the finest collection of such works to be formed in Britain this century". It consists of 84 paintings and includes some outstanding works by artists including Hendrick Avercamp , Gerard Ter Borch , Pieter Claesz , Aelbert Cuyp , Frans Hals , Pieter de Hooch , Jacob van Ruisdael , Jan Steen , David Teniers

1566-462: The National College of Heating, Ventilating, Refrigeration and Fan Engineering (founded in 1947) merged with the Polytechnic to become the Polytechnic of the South Bank . The new institution adopted a coat of arms designed to include two Thames barges set above a pentagon surrounded by five other pentagons. An official designation service took place the following year, at which Margaret Thatcher

1620-754: The National School of Bakery and Confectionery (later the National Bakery School ) was opened with 78 pupils. In 1897, the Polytechnic was let to sightseers who wished to see the Diamond Jubilee parade for Queen Victoria . In 1902, the Borough Road building was once again let to sightseers who wished to see the Coronation parade of King Edward VII . Through a donation from Edric Bayley, the Edric Hall

1674-465: The Polytechnic. In 1985 South Bank Technopark opened on London Road and in 1987 the Polytechnic changed its name again to become South Bank Polytechnic. In the same year, the British Youth Opera (BYO) was founded and made a home at the Polytechnic's Southwark campus. In 1987, Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark was appointed Director, who oversaw the conversion of the Polytechnic into

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1728-658: The Wandsworth Road site was sold. On 1 September 2003, the university underwent its most recent name change to become London South Bank University (LSBU) and in that year officially opened the Keyworth Centre. Martin Earwicker was appointed Vice-Chancellor in 2009, the year in which another major building on their Southwark campus, the Grimshaw-designed K2, was opened to house the School of Health and Social Care and

1782-526: The Younger and Willem van de Velde . The Mansion House also houses a plate collection, which includes among other treasures, the five ceremonial City of London swords . The Mansion House is not generally open to the public. However, tours can be arranged through the diary office, and there are public tours most Tuesdays. Mansion House Street is the short street at the front of the Mansion House, which connects Poultry , Queen Victoria Street and Bank Junction above Bank Underground station . Guildhall

1836-524: The building. During the Second World War , a third of the Polytechnic's campus was destroyed or damaged from the Blitz . Southwark was bombed seven times and its population halved by the end of the War. At the start of the War the boys and girls from the Polytechnic's Trade Schools were evacuated to Exeter . From 1940 to 1941, the Polytechnic was bombed five times but continued to provide hundreds of meals

1890-527: The buildings were made during the 1960s with the opening of the National College Wing in 1961 and the extension buildings and Tower Block in 1969, which were officially opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh . In 1970, the Brixton School of Building (founded in 1904), the City of Westminster College (founded in 1918 – and not the same institution as the current City of Westminster College ) and

1944-549: The campus is Borough Road , where the main entrance is situated and the original building of the Borough Polytechnic Institute. To the west is London Road and to the east is Southwark Bridge Road . At the northwest corner is St George's Circus . Schiller International University had a campus in the Technopark Building on the London South Bank University property. In August 2011 Schiller stated that it

1998-418: The centre of which is a symbolic figure of the City of London trampling on her enemies. The building originally had two prominent and unusual attic structures at either end, which were removed in 1794 and 1843. The building is on a confined site. Sir John Summerson wrote that "it leaves an impression of uneasily constricted bulk", adding that "on the whole, the building is a striking reminder that good taste

2052-470: The inaugural 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework assessment which ranked the quality of undergraduate teaching across UK universities and applied either a bronze, silver or gold ranking, LSBU was awarded a "Silver" ranking. 70% of UK students at London South Bank University are Londoners. Students primarily come from the South London Boroughs of Southwark , Lambeth , Lewisham and Croydon , and

2106-524: The ingenious way in which the aldermen of London raised the money that built the Mansion House. A person who had not taken the Sacrament according to the Anglican rite could not stand as a candidate for sheriff of London. Thus Dissenters were ineligible; they could not run if asked, they could not serve if elected. The aldermen, who without any question were Yankees in disguise, hit upon this neat device: they passed

2160-638: The new university celebrate its centenary and adopt the marketing slogan, "the University without Ivory Towers". In 1993, Gerald Bernbaum was appointed Vice-Chancellor and the Centenary Library was renamed the Perry Library. Redwood College of Health Studies and Great Ormond Street School of Nursing merged with the university in 1995, leading to the establishment of two satellite campuses teaching Health at Havering and Whipps Cross (which closed in 2011). In 2001, Deian Hopkin became Vice-Chancellor and

2214-425: The past year. This was exactly what English Dissenters could not, in conscience, do: "It would appear almost incredible, if the facts were not widely attested, that under these circumstances the City of London systematically elected wealthy Dissenters to the office in order that they should be objected to and fined, and that in this manner it extorted no less than £15,000. The electors appointed these Dissenters with

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2268-486: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battersea_College&oldid=1162898866 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

2322-603: The university was named the Entrepreneurial University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards . In the inaugural 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework , London South Bank University was awarded a Silver rating and maintained the rating in the 2023 assessment. London South Bank University was founded in 1892 as the Borough Polytechnic Institute. It has since undergone several name changes, becoming

2376-542: The university was named the Entrepreneurial University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards. The Guardian ' s 2018 league table of teaching excellence ranked the university 92 out of 121 British institutions. The Sunday Times ' league table, measuring a number of different factors including teaching quality, research quality and employment rates, ranks the university 120th. However, The Guardian rated LSBU joint 13th for law students. In

2430-529: Was built between 1739 and 1752, in the Palladian style , by the surveyor and architect George Dance the Elder . The Master Mason was John Deval . The site, at the east end of Poultry, London , had previously been occupied by the Stocks Market , which by the time of its closure was mostly used for the sale of herbs. The construction was prompted by a wish to put an end to the inconvenient practice of lodging

2484-513: Was built in 1908, along with the Lancaster Street extension buildings which gave the Polytechnic new bakery rooms, gymnasium, workshops and its triangular campus site. In 1911, the Governors commissioned Roger Fry to create a set of seven murals to decorate the student dining room with the theme of "London on Holiday". These comprised: In 1931, they were sold to the Tate Gallery . During

2538-403: Was chosen to be clerk to the governing body, C. T. Millis was appointed as Headmaster, Miss Helen Smith was appointed Lady Superintendent and Edric Bayley was appointed the first Chair of Governors. On 30 September 1892, the Borough Polytechnic Institute was officially opened by Lord Rosebery , with a remit to educate the local community in a range of practical skills. The Polytechnic was given

2592-819: Was closing its London campus and will not start the Autumn 2011 semester there, due to stricter student visa requirements in the United Kingdom. There is a smaller satellite campus in east London: at Havering (LSBU at Havering), diagonally opposite Harold Wood station . A central Croydon campus is due to open in September 2021: it will be at Electric House in Wellesley Road. The university has seven Schools, they are; The University announced in April 2021 that in 2021 they were not admitting students to study history or human geography. The British painter David Bomberg taught Art at

2646-555: Was created in 1845, and in 1849 the former Swordbearer's Room was converted into the Justice Room, effectively the magistrates' court of the City, until 1999 when the court removed to a building on the opposite side of Walbrook. From 1873, with the Lord Mayor as its president, committee meetings of the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund met at the Mansion House. The Mansion House was paid for in an unusual way:

2700-416: Was not a universal attribute in the eighteenth century". The main reception room, the columned "Egyptian Hall", was so named because Dance used an arrangement of columns deemed to be "Egyptian" by Vitruvius . No Egyptian motifs were employed. It has twenty niches for sculpture. There was originally an open courtyard, later occupied by a saloon. The residence used to have its own court of law , since

2754-412: Was opened, providing space for expanding business courses and the library. In 1976 the Battersea College of Education merged with the polytechnic, bringing sites at Manresa House , Roehampton and Manor House, Clapham Common . Battersea College of Education was previously known as Battersea College of Domestic Science (1948 to 1965). Also in 1976, part of Rachel MacMillan College of Education merged with

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2808-493: Was successful in persuading the Charity Commissioners to pledge to match whatever could be raised from the public, up to the sum of £200,000 to establish polytechnics in South London. A public meeting at Mansion House kick-started the public appeal and by 1891 enough money had been raised to establish polytechnics at Battersea and at Borough Road, Southwark, now LSBU. During 1890, the former buildings of Joseph Lancaster 's British and Foreign School Society were purchased for

2862-429: Was the guest speaker. In 1972 the purpose-built Wandsworth Road site opened, providing space for the Polytechnic's Faculty of the Built Environment, which at the time was the biggest and most comprehensive faculty in Europe for teaching built environment subjects such as surveying, town planning, architecture, civil engineering and other property related professional disciplines. In 1975, the extensive London Road building

2916-416: Was undertaken including a new facade for the Borough Road building. Class numbers increased to 8,682 students by 1927 and on 20 February 1930 the Duke of York officially opened the Polytechnic's new buildings. In 1933, Dr D H Ingall took over as Principal and a sports ground at Turney Road Dulwich was obtained for the Polytechnic. In 1933, farriery was dropped as it was too difficult to bring horses into

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