USHAW COLLEGE

'Ushaw College' ('St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw') is a Roman Catholic seminary, founded at 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 financially, and to some extent administratively, independent of the University. Both Church and lay students study at the college.
Some of the college's buildings are no longer used, and others have been converted into a Conference Centre, and the St Bede's Institute, which offers courses to the public.
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 College Chapel and Refectory were designed and built by Pugin. The original college buildings (1804-1808) were designed by James Taylor.

Contents

Crest

Alumni

External links

Crest

The College crest is "Per pale dexter Argent a Cross Gules on a Canton Azure a Cross of St Cuthbert proper sinister impaling Allen Argent three Rabbits couchant in pale Sable."
Various emblems on the crest represent the college's history and foundation, for example:-

★ Three coneys are from the family crest of William Allen.

★ The small Celtic cross represents the College's patron saint(St Cuthbert).

★ The cross of St. George represents the English Catholic Martyrs.

Alumni

★ Cardinal Wiseman - First Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster

★ Francis Cardinal Bourne - Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster

★ Rafael Merry del Val - Cardinal Secretary of State

★ Charles Napier Hemy -Artist & Royal Acamedian

★ Francis Thompson - English poet

★ Father John Lingard - Author of ''The History Of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII''

★ Joseph Gillow - Author of ''Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics''

★ William Shee - First Roman Catholic to sit as a judge in England and Wales since the Reformation

External links

★ Ushaw College

★ Thomas Eyre, the first President