Wednesday, April 29, 2009

If you`ve never been to Ushaw....

..here are some more pictures.

Here is the high altar:
A view from the ante-chapel:



The English martyrs` picture in the cloister:



It is so sad that only 20 students rattle around in a building made to accomodate 300. In my time in the 80`s there were over 160 students. `Nous devons refonder l`eglise` as I think a Canon of Gap said to me on the Chartres pilgrimage a few years ago.


Many thanks to Leo Darroch again for the photos.

3 comments:

Flo said...

It's fantastic, and to think you have something like that practically on your doorstep.
Since it seems so underused would it not be possible to ahve a parish trip there or even say Mass there even just a couple of times a year?

Fr Michael Brown said...

Well it is well used by conferences. When we were there there was a big group of clergy from the United Reform Church who were staying for the week. In fact it proved quite difficult to find a time when they could take our conference: that week was the only one we could have. I hope we have got a booking for next year.

I will be back there for Mass on June 27th when the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge are there for the weekend and are having a High Mass in the Extraordinary Form (as well as an OF Mass on the Sunday and even a Anglican Eucharist before that).

Anonymous said...

Only 20 students? That's amazingly sad. I hope Ushaw doesn't go the same way as St Joseph's College, Upholland .