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English and Continental Seminaries conducted by the Secular Clergy

(Junior seminaries are marked with an asterisk)

   

   

   Opened

   Closed

BATH   

SS Peter and Paul
 (Prior Park)

 re-opened   

1830

1867

1856

1894

 

HAMMERSMITH   

St. Thomas of Canterbury   

 

1869

1893

LEEDS   

St. Joseph   

1879

1939

 

LISBON   

Pontifical English College   

 

1628

1971

LIVERPOOL   

St. Edward*   

1843

1920

 

MARK CROSS Sussex   

 

St. Joseph*   

1924

1971

OAKAMOOR   

(Cotton College) 
St. Wilfrid*   

at Sedgley Park 1763;

 removed to Cotton Hall   1873

  
 

 

1981

 

OLTON Warwickshire   

 

St. Bernard   

1873

1889

OSCOTT Birmingham 

  

St. Mary   

1793

ROME   

Beda   

1856
refounded 1897
present site 1922

 

 

ROME   

Venerable English College  

 

1580

UNDERLEY HALL Lancaster   

St. Michael*   

at Thistleton Lodge, Great Eccleston 
1948 




1975

 

UPHOLLAND Wigan   

 

St. Joseph   

1883

1981

TOLLERTON HALL  Nottingham   

 

St. Hugh*   

1948

1974

USHAW Durham   

St. Cuthbert   

1794 at Crook Hall

1808 at present site

 

VALLADOLID   

St. Alban   

1589

 

WARE Hertfordshire   

St. Edmund   

1793 

removed to Chelsea (Allen Hall) 1975

 

WONERSH Guildford  

St. John   

1891

 

NUMBERS OF SECULAR PRIESTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES

1850   

732

1868   

955

1920   

2456

1965   

4761

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