| Kode | NA540 |
| Sæt | Old Postern formerly Old Parsonage |
| Notes | Originally known as the Old Parsonage, Dartington's first rectory dates from about 1370. Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst bought the Old Parsonage from the church and moved in there in May 1926 until September 1926 when their home at the Hall was ready. (Alternative information contained in T/EST/S25/A/026/012, part of Foxhole, Old Postern, School Properties album Index, states that: Old Postern...purchased with other buildings and land in July 1926. Extensive alterations carried out 1927/28.)
Under Rex Gardner, the estate architect , reconstruction work was carried out on the Old Parsonage from 1928 to 1929 see note above relating to alternative information.
A domestic science course in collaboration with the Devon County Education Committee, was run at the Old Parsonage from 1928 to 1930 to train local village girls. When the project terminated it continued as a staff hostel until 1936 when it was handed over to the Dartington Hall School.
The name was changed to Old Postern in 1936 in response to complaints from the rector of Dartington Parish, Rev J Martin, who lived in a neighbouring house known as the Parsonage, that he was receiving too many telegrams by mistake. It served as an annex of Dartington Hall School through to 1957.
The Old Postern building was used by headmasters Hu and Lois Child as a residence and a nursery school between 1957 and their retirement in 1968. (Alternative information contained in T/EST/S25/A/026/008, part of Foxhole, Old Postern, School Properties album Index, states that: between 1945 and 1953 (August) the Old Postern was the Junior School, in 1953 it became the Nurssery School when Great Garden (the house about 100 yards to the South East) was taken over for other purposes.) The nursery school had originally been built to operate at Aller Park. From 1969 the Nursery was placed off campus at Brimhay in co-operation with the village of Dartington and Devon County Council. The Old Postern was renovated, and three new dormitories and a warden's house were built in 1969. It achieved some notoriety when the Trustees succeeded in obtaining a licence for a sixth-form club and bar at the Postern. From 1978, the Board of Governors operated the Postern Programme, an experiment allowing young adults to transition between the worlds of work and school. It originally operated from the Gardens Hostel and moved to the Old Postern in 1979. The Postern Programme was funded by the Manpower Services Commission until 1982, after which it ceased to be a part of the Dartington Hall Trust and became an independent activity as Action Consultant Training under Roy Robinson. In April 1983 the School relinquished its control of the Old Postern which was then designated for use as a new college in an experiment initiated by Michael Young. The ideas of the Postern Programme were revised and continued as Dartington Tech.
Schumacher College was founded at the Old Postern in 1991 and currently continues to be housed there. Mary Bride Nicholson stated in Apr 2007 that Schumacher College had been named in relation to the book 'Small is Beautiful' by Fritz Schumacher, which had much influence on Maurice Ash who had founded The Green Alliance in London. During that time when Maurice was also the Executive Director of The Town and Country Planning Association, he was writing articles for 'Resurgence' magazine and got to know and corresponded with Diana Schumacher, widow of Fritz Schumacher. When the new college at Dartington was being set up he asked Diana Schumacher whether she would agree to it being named The Schumacher College, to which she agreed. |
| Stednavn | Old Postern formerly Old Parsonage |
| Notes | Originally known as the Old Parsonage, Dartington's first rectory dates from about 1370. Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst bought the Old Parsonage from the church and moved in there in May 1926 until September 1926 when their home at the Hall was ready. (Alternative information contained in T/EST/S25/A/026/012, part of Foxhole, Old Postern, School Properties album Index, states that: Old Postern...purchased with other buildings and land in July 1926. Extensive alterations carried out 1927/28.)
Under Rex Gardner, the estate architect , reconstruction work was carried out on the Old Parsonage from 1928 to 1929 see note above relating to alternative information.
A domestic science course in collaboration with the Devon County Education Committee, was run at the Old Parsonage from 1928 to 1930 to train local village girls. When the project terminated it continued as a staff hostel until 1936 when it was handed over to the Dartington Hall School.
The name was changed to Old Postern in 1936 in response to complaints from the rector of Dartington Parish, Rev J Martin, who lived in a neighbouring house known as the Parsonage, that he was receiving too many telegrams by mistake. It served as an annex of Dartington Hall School through to 1957.
The Old Postern building was used by headmasters Hu and Lois Child as a residence and a nursery school between 1957 and their retirement in 1968. (Alternative information contained in T/EST/S25/A/026/008, part of Foxhole, Old Postern, School Properties album Index, states that: between 1945 and 1953 (August) the Old Postern was the Junior School, in 1953 it became the Nurssery School when Great Garden (the house about 100 yards to the South East) was taken over for other purposes.) The nursery school had originally been built to operate at Aller Park. From 1969 the Nursery was placed off campus at Brimhay in co-operation with the village of Dartington and Devon County Council. The Old Postern was renovated, and three new dormitories and a warden's house were built in 1969. It achieved some notoriety when the Trustees succeeded in obtaining a licence for a sixth-form club and bar at the Postern. From 1978, the Board of Governors operated the Postern Programme, an experiment allowing young adults to transition between the worlds of work and school. It originally operated from the Gardens Hostel and moved to the Old Postern in 1979. The Postern Programme was funded by the Manpower Services Commission until 1982, after which it ceased to be a part of the Dartington Hall Trust and became an independent activity as Action Consultant Training under Roy Robinson. In April 1983 the School relinquished its control of the Old Postern which was then designated for use as a new college in an experiment initiated by Michael Young. The ideas of the Postern Programme were revised and continued as Dartington Tech.
Schumacher College was founded at the Old Postern in 1991 and currently continues to be housed there. Mary Bride Nicholson stated in Apr 2007 that Schumacher College had been named in relation to the book 'Small is Beautiful' by Fritz Schumacher, which had much influence on Maurice Ash who had founded The Green Alliance in London. During that time when Maurice was also the Executive Director of The Town and Country Planning Association, he was writing articles for 'Resurgence' magazine and got to know and corresponded with Diana Schumacher, widow of Fritz Schumacher. When the new college at Dartington was being set up he asked Diana Schumacher whether she would agree to it being named The Schumacher College, to which she agreed. |
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