The Porteus Room is a boardroom style room with tables and chairs used for general teaching.
The room is named in honour of Norman Porteous, New College Professor of Old Testament Literature, Language and Theology, 1935-1968, and Principal, 1964-1968. Professor Porteous had served as an officer on the Western Front during the First World War, and after studying for the ministry at New College, had become a socially-committed United Free Church minister in the coalfields of West Fife, among communities suffering from poverty in the 1920s. A gifted classicist and student of Hebrew, he was drawn back into academic life in the 1930s by his concern over rising anti-Semitism in Europe and a tendency to downplay the Old Testament and vital Jewish aspects of the Christian Faith.
Click on the images below to look around the Porteus Room.
