Brief time-line of the College

The foundation stone was laid on the grounds by the then NSW Governor, Sir William Denison, on the Feast Day of St Paul, 25 January 1856.

History

St Paul’s College is the oldest residential college in Australia within Australia’s first university, The University of Sydney. The College was founded as a separate Anglican institution on land secured from the University and the church by a committee chaired by Sir Alfred Stephen, Chief Justice of NSW. He drew up the legislation that was to become the 1854 Act of NSW Parliament which was only succeeded by a new Act in 2018. The foundation stone was laid on the grounds by the then NSW Governor, Sir William Denison, on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul, 25 January 1856.

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