It provides special supervision of candidates for the ministry through a Principal (appointed by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland) and a College Council.The Free Church established three colleges or seminaries of its own, detached from the universities, for the education of its ministers.It was a multi-disciplinary institution of considerable reputation, existing outside the University of Glasgow's Faculty of Divinity.In 1872 Thomas Martin Lindsay was appointed Professor of church history, and he became principal of the college in 1902.After 1976, when the Church-owned Trinity College buildings at Park Circus were finally vacated, all teaching of theology took place in the university Divinity Faculty.