The Colleges of Durham University are

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that are the primary source of accommodation and support services for

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s and

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Durham University Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament (UK), Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by r ...

, as well as providing a focus for social, cultural and sporting life for their members, and offering bursaries and scholarships to students. They also provide funding and/or accommodation for some of the research posts in the University. All students at the University are required to be members of one of the colleges.

has 17 colleges, of which

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is the oldest, founded in 1832. The newest college is

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, founded in 2020. The last single-sex college, St Mary's, became mixed in 2005 with the admittance of male undergraduates. One college, Ustinov, admits only

Colleges

Durham operates a collegiate structure similar to that of the

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and the

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, in that all colleges at Durham, being constituent colleges of a "recognised body", are "listed bodies" in the Education (Listed Bodies) (England) Order 2013 made under the Education Reform Act 1988. The "recognised body" in this case is Durham University. Though most of the Durham colleges are governed and owned directly by the University itself, and so do not enjoy the independence of colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, the status of the Durham colleges is similar to those in Oxford and Cambridge, setting Durham colleges apart from those at the universities of

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, and

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. However, unlike at Oxford and Cambridge (and federal universities such as

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and the

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), there is no formal teaching at most Durham colleges (although St John's and St Chad's have their own academic and research staff and offer college-based programmes in conjunction with the University). The colleges dominate the residential, social, sporting, and pastoral functions within the university, and there is heavy student involvement in their operation. Formal dinners (known as "formals") are held at many colleges;

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are often worn to these events. There is a great deal of intercollegiate rivalry, particularly in

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and other sporting activities. There is also rivalry between the older colleges of the Bailey and the newer colleges of the Hill.

Types of College

The University is collegiate in structure. There are four different sorts of college: Maintained Colleges and Societies, Recognised Colleges, Licensed Halls of Residence, and Affiliated Colleges. *''Maintained Colleges'' are governed directly by, and are financially dependent on, the University. Their principals and staff are appointed by University Council. The maintained colleges are overseen by the Deputy Warden, who is also a member of the University Executive Committee. *''Recognised Colleges'' ( St John's and St Chad's) are 'recognised' as colleges of the University, but they are actually incorporated as separate institutions. They are in effect accredited, being governed, financed and managed independently of the University and being educational charities in their own right. However, as a condition of their ongoing recognition by the University, the University's Council must approve the appointment of their principals and be notified of changes to their constitutions. *''Licensed Halls of Residences'' are, unlike Recognised Colleges, not recognised as colleges of the University, and their principals are only ''ex officio'' members of Senate if the hall has 25 or more matriculated students in residence. Under statute 14, Council may recognise any college within

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as a licensed hall of residence; at the moment only

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is recognised in this statute,

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College (now merged into

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) was a licensed hall from 1924 to 1977. The regulations as to the approval of principals and changes to their constitutions apply to licensed halls in the same way as to recognised colleges. *''Affiliated Colleges'' are treated under statute 39, rather than statutes 14 & 15 like the other colleges. This states that Council may, on the recommendation of Senate, recognised any college as an affiliated college. There are currently no affiliated colleges. Previous affiliated colleges have included

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(now part of the

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), and Sunderland Technical College (now the

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). Affiliated colleges are not generally considered part of the collegiate structure of the University. The University validates degrees at other colleges not recognised under any of the above categories. Current arrangements include the validation of the

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at a number of theological colleges. The

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also used to teach courses leading to degrees validated by Durham.

Hill and Bailey

Most colleges can be classified into two groups: Bailey colleges, located on Durham's peninsula around

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, and Hill colleges on Elvet Hill on the other side of the river. The five Bailey colleges are located in historic buildings on

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, the peninsula around the castle and cathedral that forms the historic centre of Durham. They include most of the older colleges of the university. The Hill colleges are located in purpose-built buildings on Elvet Hill to the south of the city, close to the Mountjoy site which houses most of the university's departments and central facilities. The first hill college was St Mary's, which moved in 1952 from the Bailey. All new colleges founded in Durham since then have been on Elvet Hill, and as of 2020 it houses eight colleges, with two more under construction. Two colleges do not fit into this grouping: the

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, formed in 1975 as a merger of two Victorian teacher training colleges, is located along with the Education Department on

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, on the opposite side of Durham from Elvet Hill.

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, the university's sole postgraduate-only college, is based at Sheraton Park on the same side of the city as Elvet Hill but further from the city centre, which was formerly the home of Neville's Cross College. Some colleges also have accommodation in other parts of the city, most notably St Cuthbert's Society, which has its headquarters on the Bailey but its largest accommodation blocks at the end of Old Elvet, across the river from St Hild and St Bede. South and Snow Colleges Durham - wide view

South and Snow Colleges Durham - wide view

Planned Colleges

The university announced in 2017 its intention to build four to six new colleges by 2027. The first of these,

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, opened in 2020 on the

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site, alongside a new home for

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which relocated from Queen's Campus in 2018. In 2023, it was announced that the university planned to work with the owners of

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private hall, formerly County Hospital, to equip the site with college facilities, to serve as a temporary home for

during renovation of its own site, then to become the university's eighteenth college once Hild Bede returned to its own buildings. In May 2024, the university also announced the building of Durham's 19th college scheduled to start in 2025 neighbouring Hild Bede.

College architecture

The colleges built on Elvet Hill each have their own distinctive

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. The first college built in the area, St Mary's in 1952, was designed by

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and has been described as both '' neo-Georgian'' and '' domestic-classical''. It set a "colleges-in-a-green-landscape" tone that was followed by the other hill colleges, even while their architectural styles varied widely. The next, Grey College (1959) was designed by T. Worthington of

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and Sons. It was built of brick in a ''domestic Georgian'' style, and has been called the most architecturally disappointing of the post-war colleges, looking like "a mature suburban housing estate". After this, the remainder of the postwar colleges were built in a variety of

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styles. The architect for the concrete St Aidan's College was Sir

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; the original design called for the

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dining hall to be balanced by a chapel, but this was never built. Van Mildert College by Middleton, Fletcher and Partners follows a "conventional modern idiom" with a formal layout around the lake, serrated blocks and cloistered walks. Collingwood College was designed in a functionalist style in brown brick by Sir Richard Sheppard, and shows similarities to his more famous work at

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, but with less ambition and expense. Another, very different, example of functionalist architecture is found at Trevelyan College, where its hexagonal forms, designed by Stillman and Eastwick-Field, won a

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in 1968. Away from the hill, Hild Bede has a variety of different architectural styles on the Leazes Road site. These include the neo Tudor buildings of Bede College, originally built in 1838, and the former model school, the

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St Hild building from 1858, and the grade II listed

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Chapel of the Venerable Bede from 1939 by

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. Rushford Court, the former County Hospital, is also neo Tudor, built in 1850 to resemble an Elizabethan house.

List of Colleges

Since 2018 when university teaching at the university's campus in Stockton-on-Tees finished, all colleges have been located in Durham City. The student numbers in the table below are up to date for the 2010/11 year. ''U = Undergraduates, P = Postgraduates, F = Female, M = Male''

College arms and colours

Each college and societies of the university has its own

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, although in some cases, particularly for new colleges, these were assumed as

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rather than granted by the

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for instance, does not have the legal rights to bear arms and therefore recognised its trademark as a badge. From its foundation until 1954,

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have its arms assumed from that of

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, and its display, including the use of Bishop Hatfield's shield, was both inappropriate and illegal. Consequently, it sought a grant of its own from the College of Arms, which was approved. The blazons below are taken from Durham University Statutes and Regulations. Each college also has its own colours used on items such as

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and rowing blades.

Heads of Houses

The senior member of each college is an officer known generically as the Head of College or Head of House. His or her specific title varies from college to college as indicated in the list below, but there is no particular significance to the variation. The heads of the maintained colleges are also part-time members of an academic department. *Principal: Collingwood College, Grey College (formerly Master),

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, St Aidan's College,

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^†,

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(formerly Censor),

, St John's College, St Mary's College (formerly Mistress), Stephenson College,

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(formerly Master),

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(formerly Master) *Master:

:^†The Principal of St Chad's is also officially known as 'President' (as was the head of Ushaw College). The titular head of that college is known as the 'Rector'. Similarly, the Chair of the St John's College Council is the 'President' of that College.

Former Colleges

A number of colleges have been part of Durham University but have since folded or cancelled their association with the university. Durham University currently recognises seventeen colleges. However, since its foundation in 1832, a number of other colleges have been part of the university. Two of these have become completely defunct; others have ended their association with the university, or left to become independent institutions of their own.

Bishop Cosin's Hall

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was opened as the university's third college in 1851. However, a collapse in student numbers in the late 1850s and 1860s meant the university was unable to sustain three colleges at the time, and it was merged into

in 1864. At the close of the 19th century it became a common room for St. Cuthbert's Society. The building (which had also been the original home of University College before it moved into the castle) is still owned by the university, and was used by University College until 2006, after which it became the home of the Institute of Advanced Study in January 2007. Sheraton Park Durham

Neville's Cross College

College was opened in 1921. It was primarily a teacher-training college, but from 1924 it was also a licensed hall of the University and admitted students to read for both undergraduate courses and postgraduate degrees. The college merged with Durham Technical College in 1977 to form

, whereupon it ceased to be associated with the University. The former site of the college in Sheraton Park became home to the University's

in 2017.

Ushaw College

was a

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located in

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, a village to the west of Durham. It was opened in 1808 by scholars who had fled from

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, when English College was forced to close during the French Revolution. It affiliated with Durham as 'Licensed Hall' in 1968, though it retained its role primarily as a seminary. It shut as a seminary in 2011 due to a declining number of vocations in the Catholic Church, but remains recognised as a licensed hall in the University's statutes. Part of the college is now used by

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, and it is also used for conferences and lectures by the Department of Theology and Religion.

Colleges in Newcastle

In 1852, the School of Medicine and Surgery (founded in 1834) in

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was absorbed into the University of Durham as the College of Medicine, allowing students to study for the Licence in Medicine in Durham, after which students could practise Medicine and take the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor in Medicine.Foundation of the University
Durham University, Accessed December 2006 At the same time, Neville Hall was opened in Newcastle 'for the reception of Students in Medicine'. The Hall closed at the end of the academic year in 1855/56. In 1871, the College of Medicine was joined by the College of Physical Science, later renamed Armstrong College.History
Newcastle University, Accessed December 2006 Relations between the two

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es were often strained. They became two autonomous parts of the same university, with the Newcastle colleges merging to become King's College in 1937. In 1947 a proposal to rename the university as the "University of Durham and Newcastle" was approved by all the governing bodies, but was defeated at

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by 135 votes to 129 in the spring of 1952. This defeat led to King's College eventually leaving the university, to create the new

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in 1963.

Presidents of the College of Medicine

* 1851-1864 Thomas Emerson Headlam * 1864-1872 Charles Thomas Whitley * 1872-1874 Edward Charlton * 1874-1892 George Yeoman Heath * 1892-1918

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* 1918-1926 David Drummond * 1926-1934 Thomas Oliver * 1935-1937 Robert Bolam

Principals of the College of Science

* 1871-1879 William Steadman Aldis (acting) * 1879-1884 William Steadman Aldis (actual) * 1884-1893 William Garnett * 1893-1894 Vacancy * 1894-1904 Henry Palin Gurney * 1904-1909

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* 1909-1919

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* 1919-1929

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* 1929-1937

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Rectors of King's College

* 1937-1951 Lord Eustace Percy * 1951-1963 Charles Bosanquet (first Vice-Chancellor of

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)

Sunderland Technical College

Sunderland Technical College was affiliated to Durham from 1930 to 1963 in the Faculty of Applied Science, and was thus associated with the Newcastle division of the University. When the Newcastle division became

in 1963, Sunderland's affiliation with Durham ended. In 1969 the Technical College merged with Sunderland Teacher Training College and the Sunderland School of Art to form Sunderland Polytechnic (now the

University College Stockton

Originally established in 1992 as the Joint University College On Teesside (JUCOT), a limited company established as a joint venture between Durham and the

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operating under the name of University College Stockton, this became a teaching and residential college of Durham in 1994 as University College Stockton (UCS), the JUCOT company being wound up. In 1998 the teaching and residential aspects were separated, with teaching becoming the responsibility of the University of Durham, Stockton Campus. In 2001 UCS was replaced by two new colleges, Stephenson and

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Principals of University College Stockton

* 1992 – 1994 Robert Parfitt * 1994 – 2001 John Hayward

Colleges abroad

Durham University has had two affiliated colleges outside England. Of these,

is a former part of the university, having ended its affiliation in 1967. It became a constituent college of the

on that date. . Retrieved 7 October 2007 The other affiliate,

, remained listed as an affiliated college until removed in the revision of the University's statutes approved by the Queen in Council on 13 July 2011.

Renamed and merged Colleges

The

was formed from the merger of two separate colleges in 1975. The College of the Venerable Bede (usually known as Bede College) had been an all-male college formed in 1838, with St Hild's College formed as an all-female college in 1858. The merged college continued as a recognised college until 1979, when it was taken over by the university and became a maintained college. Prior to this, the two colleges had specialised in the teaching of

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; on becoming a maintained college the teaching part of Hild Bede was separated from the college to become the university's School of Education. The Graduate Society became a full college in 2003 and was subsequently renamed

. The Home Students Association (for non-collegiate women) became St Aidan's Society in 1947 and subsequently St Aidan's College in 1961.

was originally established as Bishop Hatfield's Hall, taking on its current name in 1919. St Mary's College was founded as the Women's Hostel, becoming a college and taking its current name in 1920. Stephenson College (originally George Stephenson College) and

were created in 2001. They replaced the original University College Stockton and were located on the Queen's Campus at

Stockton-on-Tees Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in County Durham, England, with a population of 84,815 at the 2021 UK census. It gives its name to and is the largest settlement in the wider Borough of Stockton-on-Tees. It is part of Teesside and the Tees Val ...

Fictitious Colleges

Jesus College and Coverdale Hall are the settings for the events in ''Angels and Men'', Durham alumna Catherine Fox's first novel (published by

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in 1996). The location is nowhere stated explicitly, but it is obvious to anyone familiar with the city and the university that it takes place in Durham; Jesus and Coverdale are modelled (very closely) on St John's College and Cranmer Hall. ''

That Hideous Strength ''That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups'' (also released under the title ''The Tortured Planet'' in an abridged format) is a 1945 novel by C. S. Lewis, the final book in Lewis's theological science fiction Space Trilogy. Th ...

'' (1943) by

C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalen ...

is set in a fictional university town, whose resemblance to Durham is close enough to require Lewis to insist in the book's preface that it is not so.

References

External links

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