Ushaw College & RCatholic Seminary, Co. Durham - Feb 2011.

jjstenso · Feb 21, 2011

Visited on a fairly miserable winter's morning with Kook and two of our friends who are non members.

Access was failry tricky but was a very worthwhile morning's explore primarly for the wonderful Gothic chapel and the marblework within. A lovely, summery external image courtesy of running_embo as mine were rather gloomy...

Ushaw College (St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw) is a Roman Catholic seminary, . It was founded at Douai as the English College, Douai in France in 1568, which moved to Ushaw Moor, four miles west of Durham in England in 1808 and became a Licensed Hall of the University of Durham in 1968. It is independent of the University but offers courses validated by the University. Both Church and lay students study at the college. In 2002 the College rejected a report from the Roman Catholic hierarchy that it should merge with St Mary's College, Oscott, near Birmingham. In October 2010 it was announced that the college is to close in the summer of 2011 due to the shortage of vocations in the Roman Catholic Church, and that the site is likely to be sold...
Some of the college's buildings are no longer used, but some have been converted into a conference centre. The main college buildings are grade II listed, however the College Chapel is grade II* and the Chapel of St Michael is grade I. The Refectory was designed and built by Pugin, as was the original chapel although this was later dismantled and replaced by the present building designed by Dunn and Hansom. The original college buildings (1804–1808) were designed by James Taylor...

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Here are a few of the photos I took.

Thanks for having a look.

night crawler · Feb 21, 2011

Excilent that was well worth having a look round, love the chapel.

Denton · Feb 21, 2011

Is this actually part of the college buildings then or the farm nearby?

jjstenso · Feb 21, 2011

Denton said:
Is this actually part of the college buildings then or the farm nearby?

I don't understand the question?

The farm nearby is.... a farm nearby, this is a disused part of the college. It's a real shame as it is falling into ruin at a rapid pace.