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Gilbert, passing on the way the elegant gable of the ruins of 
Beaurepaire or Bear Park, a former country seat of the eclesiastics 
of Durham. By the kind consideration of the President of St. 
Cuthbert’s College, at Ushaw, the Club had been invited to 
visit that large establishment, where many of the buildings 
designed by the Pugins and others, are well worthy of inspec- 
tion. About forty of the members here left the train to visit 
the college, while the others, under the able guidance of the Rev. 
William Greenwell, proceeded to examine the woods about Lan- 
chester and Greencroft. At Ushaw College, the party was most 
kindly received by the President, Dr. Tate, and the staff of 
professors, and after partaking of refreshment in the dining 
room of the masters, proceeded to examine the whole of the 
establishment. The college was opened in 1807, by some of 
the clergy from the parent establishment at Douay, in France, 
who, during the French Revolution, had established themselves 
at Crook Hall, near Consett, till the buildmg at Ushaw was 
completed. It consisted originally of a plain quadrangle, 
without the slightest architectural decoration. About fifteen 
years ago the new church was erected from the designs of the 
late A. W. Pugin, and soon after, the refectory was enlarged 
and decorated, and a handsome lecture-hall was formed out of 
the old chapel by Mr. Joseph Hansom. The new library which 
contains already about 26,000 volumes, was also built by Mr. 
Hansom. It was the gift of the late Rev. J. Wilkinson, of 
Kendal, one of the last surviving professors of the College of 
Douay before the Revolution. The same venerable gentleman, 
who died a few years ago at the great age of ninety, also pre- 
sented to the library a choice selection of about 16,000 volumes 
of books. Five thousand volumes of very valuable mathematical 
and philosophical works have recently been added. There are a 
few very curious early MSS. and the collection is rich in. early 
controversial works, both Catholic and Protestant. Ten years 
ago a new Infirmary, quite apart from the house, was erected by 
the younger Pugin, under whose superintendence was also built 
the new seminary, with church, &e., for one hundred younger boys. 
The great corridor between the two establishments is now being 
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