page_title: King's-Edgehill School
section_title: History Of King's Collegiate School
hierarchical_section_title: King's-Edgehill School / History Of King's Collegiate School
caption_attribution_description: English: Kings Edgehill Library, Windsor, NS Français&#160;: Le Hensley Memorial Chapel situé dans le lieu historique national du King's College à Windsor
context_page_description: King's-Edgehill School is a Canadian private university-preparatory boarding and day school located in the town of Windsor, Nova Scotia. It is the oldest independent school in the Commonwealth outside the United Kingdom, founded by United Empire Loyalists as King's Collegiate School in 1788, and granted Royal Charter by King George III in 1802.
context_section_description: The agricultural town of Windsor was chosen by Charles Inglis, first overseas Bishop of the Anglican Church, for the founding of the school over the larger military centre and colonial capital of Halifax, some 60 km (40 mi) to the southeast), so "...that it be well away from taverns and houses of ill fame".
  In April 1789, King George III gave Royal Assent to the establishment of King's Collegiate School, as well as to the establishment of the University of King's College - the first such honour to be bestowed upon any school in the British Empire. It is also claimed that Prince Edward, Duke of Kent took an interest in King's Collegiate School and University of King's College while stationed in Halifax as Commander-in-Chief, British North America.
  The Academy at Windsor, known as the "Collegiate School",  and the "King's Collegiate School" was opened on 1 November 1788, under the charge of Mr. Archibald Payne Inglis.  Seventeen pupils were in attendance, among whom was John Inglis, subsequently the Right Rev. John Inglis, D. D. third Bishop of Nova Scotia.
  In June 1890, the Anglican Diocese of Nova Scotia decided to establish a girls' school in Windsor to complement King's Collegiate School. Edgehill School opened in January 1891 and construction of a new building to house the new girls began in the following June.
  In 1920, a disastrous fire swept through the campus causing irreparable damage to the main university buildings. With the encouragement of the Carnegie Foundation, which was promoting the consolidation of all Nova Scotian post-secondary institutions to Halifax around a nucleus formed by Dalhousie University, the University of King's College received funds to move into a newly built campus in Halifax. King's College remains an independent university, although its students enjoy affiliation privileges with Dalhousie. Its campus is located at the corner of Oxford Street and Coburg Road, occupying the northwest corner of Dalhousie's Studley Campus.
  In 1923, the former King's College campus in Windsor was designated a National Historic Site, as it was the original site of the oldest university in the colonies which became Canada.
caption: The sandstone library built by George Lang, survived the 1923 fire.
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