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|named_for = Chad of Mercia |established = 1904 |principal = Position vacant following death of Joseph Cassidy |senior_tutor =Margaret Masson |undergraduates = 388 |postgraduates = 180 |website = |location = Durham City |latitude = 54.772925 |longitude = -1.574695 |coordinates_display = inline,title |location_map = Durham |map_size = 275 }} St Chad's College is a recognised (independent) college of Durham University in England, founded in 1904 as an Anglican hall for the training of Church of England clergy. Unlike the majority of Durham colleges, it is not maintained or governed by the university and is financially autonomous, independently staffed and entirely self-governed. One of the smallest of Durham's colleges in terms of student numbers (in 2013-4, the college had 388 undergraduates and 180 active postgraduates on its books), it nonetheless has the largest staff, extensive college library facilities, and among the highest undergraduate academic results in Durham.〔See () for comparison stats re percent of first and upper second results over recent years. Over a five- or ten-year period, the college's academic average is the highest among Durham colleges. In 2009, the college had the highest results in the university's history.〕 The main part of the college is located on the Bailey, occupying nine historic buildings at the east end of Durham Cathedral. It neighbours Hatfield College to its north, while St John's College and St Cuthbert's Society are to its south. The college is named after St Chad of Mercia, a 7th-century bishop. ==History== St Chad's was founded as an Anglican hall in 1904, principally to provide a university education for those considering ordination in the Church of England. For the first 70 years of its existence, a high proportion of students completed their undergraduate degree (in any discipline) at St Chad's and then remained for postgraduate training for ordination. The college remains a Church of England foundation but it ceased formal ordination training in 1971. Its current students study for degrees across all departments of the university. The college has its roots in the Catholic tradition of the Church of England and this tradition is still evident in services in the college chapel. Archbishop Michael Ramsey described the college thus, "I have always loved Saint Chad's College and it has been a joy to see the college go from strength to strength.... My spiritual home in Durham since 1939, Saint Chad's College represents to me the wholeness of faith and practice so needed in the universities and in the nation."〔See College Archives, St Chad's College〕 The beginnings of the college date back to 1902, when the Revd F. S. Willoughby, Vicar of Hooton Pagnell near Doncaster, opened a small hostel to prepare men of limited financial means to enter one of the established theological colleges. The financial support of Douglas Horsfall, a wealthy Liverpool businessman and devoted churchman (who also funded the building of several large Anglo-Catholic churches in his home city), made it possible in 1904 to establish St Chad's Hall in Durham City. Durham University had a provision in its statutes formally to recognise colleges beyond the university proper and it permitted students to matriculate through those institutions and then to sit for Durham exams. St Chad's Hostel, Hooton Pagnell, was retained until 1916 as a preliminary place of study to prepare students to qualify for matriculation at Durham. In 1918, after the college had established a number of endowed fellowships, the university recognised St Chad's Hall as a college (albeit an independent institution). A number of other halls subsequently styled themselves colleges as well. St Chad's was among the last university colleges in the UK to admit women undergraduates: as a part of a co-ordinated step-change in the university, the final all-male year entered in September 1987. The Durham University Library holds most of the college's medieval manuscripts and its oldest books, which include a number of 16th and 17th century imprints including Quintus Aurelius Symmachus's ''Epistolae familiares'' and the ''Concilia omnia''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Chad's College, Durham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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