{{Short description|American Christian college}} {{Distinguish|Barrington University}} {{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox university |name = Barrington College |native_name = |image_name = Belton Court Barrington RI 2012.jpg |image_size = |caption = Belton Court, the centerpiece of the college's campus |latin_name = |motto = |mottoeng = |established = {{start date and age|1900}}&nbsp; |closed = <br/>{{end date and age|1985}} |type = Private |affiliation = Evangelical Christian |endowment = |officer_in_charge = |chairman = |chancellor = |president = David G. Horner |vice-president = |superintendent = |provost = |vice_chancellor = |rector = |principal = |dean = |director = |head_label = |head = |faculty = |staff = |students = |undergrad = |postgrad = |doctoral = |other = |city = Barrington |state = Rhode Island |province = |country = United States |coor = {{Coord|41.760132|-71.332394|display=inline,title}} |campus = Suburban |former_names = Bethel Bible Training School, Dudley Bible Institute, Providence Bible Institute |free_label = |free = |sports = |colors = {{colorbox|blue}}{{colorbox|gold}} Blue and Gold |colours = |nickname = |mascot = The Warriors |athletics = |affiliations = |website = Barrington College Facebook page |logo = |footnotes = }}

'''Barrington College''' was a four-year Christian liberal arts college located in Barrington, Rhode Island, United States. It is no longer in operation.

==History== Barrington College was founded by E. W. Kenyon, pastor of the New Covenant Baptist Church, in 1900 as the '''Bethel Bible Training School''' in Spencer, Massachusetts. It was relocated to Dudley, Massachusetts in 1923 and renamed the '''Dudley Bible Institute'''. It was then moved to Capitol Hill in Providence, Rhode Island in 1929 and renamed the '''Providence Bible Institute'''. In 1950, the school purchased Belton Court, a {{convert|150|acre|ha|adj=on}} estate in Barrington. In 1960, the Providence campus was sold<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Barrington College - Gordon College|url=http://www.gordon.edu/page.cfm?iPageID=377&iCategoryID=31&About&History_of_Barrington_College|website=Gordon College|publisher=Gordon College|accessdate=22 November 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629100658/http://www.gordon.edu/page.cfm?iPageID=377&iCategoryID=31&About&History_of_Barrington_College|archivedate=29 June 2014}}</ref> and the college was renamed to '''Barrington College'''.<ref name=Nelson>{{cite book |last=Nelson |first=Rudolph |date=1987 |title=The making and unmaking of an evangelical mind: The case of Edward Carnell |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=4 |isbn=0521342635}}</ref> Financially struggling, the college merged with Gordon College, another liberal arts Christian school in Wenham, Massachusetts, in 1985.

==Legacy== The Barrington Center for the Arts at Gordon is named in honor of Barrington College. The campus was sold and was the site of Zion Bible College, until Zion moved to Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 2008.

==Notable people== * David G. Horner: Alumnus, former president, current president of American College of Greece * Doug Kane: member of the Illinois House of Representatives<ref>'Illinois Blue Book 1981-1982,' Biographical Sketch of Douglas Kane, pg. 169</ref> * Woodrow M. Kroll: Alumnus, former president of Practical Bible College, current president of the Back to the Bible radio ministry * Harold Hoehner: Professor of New Testament, Dallas Theological Seminary * Ronald H. Nash: Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology. * John Mbiti: alumnus; Professor of Philosophy, University of Bern * Shirley Nelson: Alumna, lecturer in creative writing, award-winning author

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