St Joseph's seminary - May-August 2015

[whynotdiex]

The History

St Joseph's College was founded in 1880 by Bishop Bernard O'Reilly to be the Seminary serving the North West of England. The college was formally opened in 1883. The seminary was closed during WW1 and reopened in 1919 along with a junior seminary. The second phase of construction commenced in 1923. St Joseph’s, usually referred to by its students simply as Upholland, was the main seminary serving the North West of England. The sister seminary at Ushaw provided the same services for the North East. Both institutions housed both a junior and senior seminary. The junior seminaries provided secondary education in a semi-monastic environment to boys aged 11 to 18 who wished to pursue the priesthood. The senior seminary taught adults philosophy and theology as they prepared for priesthood.

The Visit

Visited the first time with Loocyloo, Merryprankster and 2 none members!. To start the Alarms were hell! Ear plugs would be highly recommended if you are planning on going!

Been here quite a few times over the past few months winter has hit this place hard tbh!

Enjoy!

I made a virtual 360 tour of this room click here to see it

Sorry for the mix match images this was over a few visits with 3 cameras!

also going to be doing more 360s if i get enough positive respone

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[Merryprankster]

cool set man, like the DOF on the sinks

 

[jones-y-gog]

Very nice and varied collection this!

 

[hamtagger]

Same as jonesy said, really nice variation of styles there. Cheers for posting

 

[whynotdiex]

cool set man, like the DOF on the sinks

Was my last DOF shot with the 50mm before its life was taken by

this room :angry2:

 

[skeleton key]

Another cool set of the place and looking good

 

[Hydro]

Cool set mate, good day out in here. I dont get my camera out too much anymore but it sure is fun to chillax

 

[Maniac]

You know, I still need to go here, all these years later.

Nice set of pics.