Ushaw College looks a forbidding place as you drive there across the moors outside Durham, and finding a new role for the former Catholic seminary must have seemed an almost insurmountable challenge when it closed in 2011. But seven years later, it is thriving.
It has retained its Catholic ethos, it houses Durham University’s music and business schools and it is developing an international residential research library, the first of its kind in Britain, to attract scholars from around the world as fellows to work on the collections of Ushaw, Durham University and Durham Cathedral.
