Ushaw Historic House and Gardens: A Place of Memory and Renewal

Ushaw Historic House and Gardens is a hidden gem in the Durham countryside in the north of England. Initially a bolthole for French Catholics from the brutality of the Revolution, it functioned as a seminary to train priests and as a school.
The vast estate contains buildings designed by Augustus Pugin (en.wikipedia.o...) and his followers, and is one of the most important examples of Victorian Gothic architecture in the North East.
This film looks at how Ushaw has evolved as an institution that served first as a sanctuary but now is opening its doors to the world and refurbishing its incredible interiors so people can see it for themselves.
Ushaw is becoming an important centre to learn about history, music and the arts, containing several beautiful chapels, theatre and performance spaces, artist studios and places where the community can meet and mingle.
www.ushaw.org/

[@patandderry8416]

Just visited and stayed there. Really amazing. It is like a time capsule. Loads of pictures of seminarians in soutanes at leisure.
If you are within 100 miles of Durham an don't visit this place you have missed an open goal.
Room was nice and breakfast was great. I ate tons.
If you have well behaved children they will absolutely love exploring. The place is HUGE.

[@mcq1125]

A victim of Vatican II and the heresy of Modernism. A tragedy. Christ used to be present in that chapel - holding forth from His altar-throne in the holyTabernacle. Cardinal Merry del Val, Sec. of State to Pope St. Pius X, was educated here and loved the place all his life. It would break his heart to see what the Modernist heresy has done to it - but even more so, what it has done to the Church. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

[@peterforster9462]

Utter nonsense - Ushaw College was NOT established as a refuge for French Catholics escaping the revolution. It WAS established to continue the education of mainly English catholic men and seminarians expelled from the English College of Douai, not as a result of the revolution, but of the war between England and France.