High Mass: St Cuthbert’s College Ushaw 1960 (Laurence Hollis) Digitally restored

(Tyne Tees TV broadcast : Digitally restored version by us) The tradition of the Seminary at Ushaw goes back to its mother-College, founded at Douai in 1568. Ushaw College was founded in England in 1794, moving to the magnificent Pugin buildings in Co Durham in 1808. The boarding education at Ushaw was continuous from the age of eleven years, commencing at the Junior Seminary, then progressing to the Senior Seminary and finally to ordination as a Roman Catholic priest. Lay boys were also admitted to the school at Ushaw. The Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 naturally affected seminaries. The tradition of taking boys as young as eleven was discontinued and the boarding school at Ushaw was closed in 1972; the boys were moved to the last remaining Junior Seminary at Upholland. Shortly before the Junior Seminary at Ushaw was closed the choir was re-named St Cuthbert’s College Schola Cantorum; which indicates a long and secure future for the choir was expected. In 1987 the