College of St Hild and St Bede
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The College of St Hild and St Bede, commonly known as Hild Bede, is a college of Durham University
in England
. It is the University's second largest collegiate body, with over 1000 students. The co-educational college was formed in 1975 following the merger of two much older single-sex institutions, the College of the Venerable Bede
for men and St Hild's
College for women. Hild Bede is neither a Bailey
nor a Hill college
, and is situated on the banks of the River Wear
between Durham
's 'peninsula' and Gilesgate
.
William Crawford
, who would later become the college's treasurer. Its sister institution, St Hild's College, was opened for the education of women on an adjacent site in 1858. Both colleges initially specialised in teacher training but in 1892 for Bede and 1896 for Hild they became associated with the federal University of Durham, offering B.A. and B.Sc. degrees alongside teaching in education. Graduates of St Hild's were the first female graduates from Durham in 1898. The Chapel of the Venerable Bede, completed in 1939 to celebrate Bede College’s centenary, was designed by Paul Edward Paget
.
The two colleges retained links throughout the next century with shared teaching and facilities. In the 1960's they constructed the shared Caedmon Complex. It was then that it was decided that the colleges should be formally merged and in 1975 they became the unitary College of St. Hild and St. Bede, a recognised college of the university. In 1979 Hild Bede joined the College Council, becoming a full constituent college of the university and ceasing to award its own PGCE
qualifications. At this point some of the College buildings (including much of the teaching facilities of the Bede site) were occupied by the University's Department of Education, whilst the College centred itself on the old Hild's site.
, instead both the undergraduate and postgraduate communities are represented by a single Student Representative Council (SRC). The SRC does however contain a special postgraduate committee and maintains the physical Junior and Middle Common Rooms, both in the Hild Building. The SRC is run by an elected exec that is headed by a sabbatical president. The college also has a Senior Common Room (SCR) consisting of the college tutors, past and current members of college staff and invited members of the wider community.
To maintain the history of the two original colleges, males in the College wear the Bede colours of light and dark blue, the colours that the College are more widely known for, whilst female colours are the green and lilac of the original Hild College. The College Arms also represents the history of the precursor colleges, with the chief
taken directly from the Arms of the College of the Venerable Bede and the chevron being adapted from the bend
of Arms of St. Hild College.
The gowns worn by members of the college, retained from before the college became a constituent college of the University, differs from other Durham gowns in being made of brocaded fabric and being shorter. These are worn at matriculation and graduation, but not at formal hall. Formals are instead black tie events and happen around ten times a year. Postgraduate Formals happen bi-annually and include entrance and exit of the Venerable Bede's stone.
Like most Durham colleges, Hild Bede celebrates an annual college day, usually in early May. This day usually includes a Champagne Breakfast on the College Lawns; an optional service in the Cathedral; a buffet lunch in the Dining Hall and a marquee; picnics and barbecues on the lawns; and entertainment throughout the day including bands, fairground-style events, Disco, Ceilidh and College Olympics. The college also hosts two annual balls, the Christmas Ball at the end of Michaelmas Term
and the Summer Ball after exams have finished. The Summer Ball has an annual budget of £40,000 and has recently attracted acts such as Tinie Tempah
, Wheatus
and British Sea Power
.
In late April the college is host to the Sounding Retreat ceremony in conjunction with the Durham Light Infantry Association
. Initially instituted to remember students and staff of the Bede College Company who lost their lives at the Second Battle of Ypres
, it now commemorates all former members of College who have died in conflicts around the world.
. Hild Bede's sporting reputation is strong, putting forward several teams in a variety of sports.
Historically for the first time, as of the 2006–07 season Hild Bede will have three men's football teams in the highest university league, the premiership, which no other college can lay claim to. The men's hockey team currently reside in North East League Division 1, a feat unique among the Durham Colleges; rivals in this league include Durham University 3rd and 4th teams and Newcastle University's 2nd team. The college mixed tennis team is the only college tennis club to play all year round, competing in the North-East winter league and the college league in the summer. The college's affiliated rugby team, Bede RFC, were the university's Floodlit Tournament Champions for 2005–06, defending this title successfully to remain champions in 2006-07 whilst simultaneously capturing the College League title in the same year (2006–07), remaining unbeaten in both competitions In many years of touring the team is yet to be defeated, and include victories over the national teams of Mexico, Estonia and Australia amongst their recent successes. The rugby team also recently wrote, directed and starred in a satirical production entitled Gladiat-Rah, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won five Durham University Drama Awards. Many ex players are seen playing for A Few Good Men Cricket Club. The college has extensive sporting facilities, which aids the high level of sporting attainment.
Hild Bede's Chapel holds services twice a week during term time on a Wednesday evening and Sunday morning to which members of the public are invited to attend. The chapel choir is one of the finest in the region.
Hild Bede Theatre is the biggest college drama society in Durham and they put on at least 3 productions annually in Caedmon hall, including a musical at the beginning of the third term. In 2009-10 they won 2 Durham Oscars, "best college play" for "Who's afraid of Virginia woolf" and Best college musical for 42nd Street
. They have won the latter more times than any other Durham theatre group, having won 6 times including 5 wins in the past 6 years.
Hild Bede also hosts the longest running alternative music event within the university, Full Collapse. The event is run bi-weekly in Caedmon's Undecroft and has been running for 10 years. The DJ's of Full Collapse have arranged with the organiser's of Revolver, Durham Student Union's weekly dance night, to provide alternative music in what has become known as "Partial Collapse"
Additionally, Hild Bede houses the only student cinema in Durham, Bede Film Society. The society shows recent films on a 35mm projector with Dolby Digital surround sound on most weekends of term, with the occasional midweek showing. The society was started over 30 years ago, before the merging of the two colleges, showing films on a 16mm projector.
Each year, several members of the college are awarded the Ann Boynton Award for outstanding contribution to college, for those who embody the spirit of the college whilst maintaining outstanding academic excellence. Winners of the award can be viewed on the college website.
Durham University
The University of Durham, commonly known as Durham University, is a university in Durham, England. It was founded by Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837...
in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It is the University's second largest collegiate body, with over 1000 students. The co-educational college was formed in 1975 following the merger of two much older single-sex institutions, the College of the Venerable Bede
Bede
Bede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...
for men and St Hild's
Hilda of Whitby
Hilda of Whitby or Hild of Whitby was a Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby...
College for women. Hild Bede is neither a Bailey
The Bailey
The Bailey, or The Peninsula, is an historic area in the centre of Durham, England. It is shaped like a peninsula thanks to a sharp meander in the River Wear, formed by isostatic adjustment of the land. The name 'The Bailey' derives from it being the 'outer bailey' of the Norman motte and...
nor a Hill college
Hill college
Hill College may refer to:* Hill college, college of Durham University on Elvet Hill* Hill College, Hillsboro, Texas, USA...
, and is situated on the banks of the River Wear
River Wear
The River Wear is located in North East England, rising in the Pennines and flowing eastwards, mostly through County Durham, to the North Sea at Sunderland.-Geology and history:...
between Durham
Durham
Durham is a city in north east England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county...
's 'peninsula' and Gilesgate
Gilesgate
Gilesgate is a place in County Durham, England. It is situated east of the centre of Durham.Gilesgate was originally the main street in a settlement associated with the Hospital of St Giles which was sited by the existing St Giles Church...
.
History
The College of the Venerable Bede, for men, was founded in 1838 with a small number of trainee schoolmasters. The college was expanded greatly over the next few decades the with the assistance of trade unionist and future local MPMid Durham (UK Parliament constituency)
Mid Durham was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
William Crawford
William Crawford (Durham politician)
William Crawford was an English miner, trade unionist and a Liberal politician.Crawford was born at Cullercoats Northumberland and worked in Hartley Coal Mines from the age of 10. In 1862 actively opposed the attempt of the Northumberland mine owners to impose the system of yearly hiring...
, who would later become the college's treasurer. Its sister institution, St Hild's College, was opened for the education of women on an adjacent site in 1858. Both colleges initially specialised in teacher training but in 1892 for Bede and 1896 for Hild they became associated with the federal University of Durham, offering B.A. and B.Sc. degrees alongside teaching in education. Graduates of St Hild's were the first female graduates from Durham in 1898. The Chapel of the Venerable Bede, completed in 1939 to celebrate Bede College’s centenary, was designed by Paul Edward Paget
Paul Edward Paget
Paul Edward Paget was the son of Henry Luke Paget, Bishop of Chester. He became business partner of John Seely , whom he met at Cambridge and with whom he restored many damaged church buildings after World War II....
.
The two colleges retained links throughout the next century with shared teaching and facilities. In the 1960's they constructed the shared Caedmon Complex. It was then that it was decided that the colleges should be formally merged and in 1975 they became the unitary College of St. Hild and St. Bede, a recognised college of the university. In 1979 Hild Bede joined the College Council, becoming a full constituent college of the university and ceasing to award its own PGCE
PGCE
PGCE can stand for:* Postgraduate Certificate in Education, an English, Welsh and Northern Irish teacher-training qualification that includes master's credits...
qualifications. At this point some of the College buildings (including much of the teaching facilities of the Bede site) were occupied by the University's Department of Education, whilst the College centred itself on the old Hild's site.
Buildings
The college consists of several distinct buildings, including the main Hild building, which is the administrative hub of the college containing the main college library, offices, computer room, common rooms and a large number of student rooms; other larger accommodation blocks, such as Thorp, Christopher, Bede; and several smaller houses such as Hild Gym, Bede Gym, Charles Stranks, Gables, Manor House, Manor Lodge, Belvedere and Grove House. At the centre of college is the Caedmon Complex, which contains a dining hall, two bars (The Vernon Arms, named after the original Hild Bede Principal, Dr Vernon Armitage & The Undercroft Bar which is open for selected events only), music rooms and the only student-run cinema in Durham, Bede Film Soc http://www.bedefilmsoc.com. The college is one of two colleges in Durham to have two chapels — The Chapel of St. Hild (now a function room named the Joachim Room) and The Chapel of the Venerable Bede (still in use). The college also maintains a boat house used by the boat club on the river near the Caedmon Complex.Traditions
Unlike most colleges of the university, the student body is not divided into Junior and Middle Common RoomsCommon Room (university)
In some universities in the United Kingdom — particularly collegiate universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and Durham — students and the academic body are organised into common rooms...
, instead both the undergraduate and postgraduate communities are represented by a single Student Representative Council (SRC). The SRC does however contain a special postgraduate committee and maintains the physical Junior and Middle Common Rooms, both in the Hild Building. The SRC is run by an elected exec that is headed by a sabbatical president. The college also has a Senior Common Room (SCR) consisting of the college tutors, past and current members of college staff and invited members of the wider community.
To maintain the history of the two original colleges, males in the College wear the Bede colours of light and dark blue, the colours that the College are more widely known for, whilst female colours are the green and lilac of the original Hild College. The College Arms also represents the history of the precursor colleges, with the chief
Chief (heraldry)
In heraldic blazon, a chief is a charge on a coat of arms that takes the form of a band running horizontally across the top edge of the shield. Writers disagree in how much of the shield's surface is to be covered by the chief, ranging from one-fourth to one-third. The former is more likely if the...
taken directly from the Arms of the College of the Venerable Bede and the chevron being adapted from the bend
Bend (heraldry)
In heraldry, a bend is a coloured band running from the upper right corner of the shield to the lower left . Writers differ in how much of the field they say it covers, ranging from one-fifth up to one-third...
of Arms of St. Hild College.
The gowns worn by members of the college, retained from before the college became a constituent college of the University, differs from other Durham gowns in being made of brocaded fabric and being shorter. These are worn at matriculation and graduation, but not at formal hall. Formals are instead black tie events and happen around ten times a year. Postgraduate Formals happen bi-annually and include entrance and exit of the Venerable Bede's stone.
Like most Durham colleges, Hild Bede celebrates an annual college day, usually in early May. This day usually includes a Champagne Breakfast on the College Lawns; an optional service in the Cathedral; a buffet lunch in the Dining Hall and a marquee; picnics and barbecues on the lawns; and entertainment throughout the day including bands, fairground-style events, Disco, Ceilidh and College Olympics. The college also hosts two annual balls, the Christmas Ball at the end of Michaelmas Term
Michaelmas term
Michaelmas term is the first academic term of the academic years of the following British and Irish universities:*University of Cambridge*University of Oxford*University of St...
and the Summer Ball after exams have finished. The Summer Ball has an annual budget of £40,000 and has recently attracted acts such as Tinie Tempah
Tinie Tempah
Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu , better known by his stage name Tinie Tempah, is a British rapper. He made his first mixtape in 2007 with 28 songs, freestyles and remixes, the album features Mz Bratt, Chipmunk and G-Unit...
, Wheatus
Wheatus
Wheatus are an American rock group from Northport, New York. They are known for their 2000 single "Teenage Dirtbag" which was featured in the movie Loser, as well as in the HBO miniseries Generation Kill.-1995-2002: Formation and Wheatus:...
and British Sea Power
British Sea Power
British Sea Power are an indie rock band based in Brighton, England, although three of the band members originally come from Kendal in Cumbria. Critics have likened their sound to a variety of groups, from The Cure and Joy Division to the Pixies and Arcade Fire. The band are famed for their live...
.
In late April the college is host to the Sounding Retreat ceremony in conjunction with the Durham Light Infantry Association
Durham Light Infantry
The Durham Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1968. It was formed by the amalgamation of the 68th Regiment of Foot and the 106th Regiment of Foot along with the militia and rifle volunteers of County Durham...
. Initially instituted to remember students and staff of the Bede College Company who lost their lives at the Second Battle of Ypres
Second Battle of Ypres
The Second Battle of Ypres was the first time Germany used poison gas on a large scale on the Western Front in the First World War and the first time a former colonial force pushed back a major European power on European soil, which occurred in the battle of St...
, it now commemorates all former members of College who have died in conflicts around the world.
Students
The college is sometimes regarded as having a slightly disproportionate public school intake and an inclination towards competitive sportSport
A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...
. Hild Bede's sporting reputation is strong, putting forward several teams in a variety of sports.
Historically for the first time, as of the 2006–07 season Hild Bede will have three men's football teams in the highest university league, the premiership, which no other college can lay claim to. The men's hockey team currently reside in North East League Division 1, a feat unique among the Durham Colleges; rivals in this league include Durham University 3rd and 4th teams and Newcastle University's 2nd team. The college mixed tennis team is the only college tennis club to play all year round, competing in the North-East winter league and the college league in the summer. The college's affiliated rugby team, Bede RFC, were the university's Floodlit Tournament Champions for 2005–06, defending this title successfully to remain champions in 2006-07 whilst simultaneously capturing the College League title in the same year (2006–07), remaining unbeaten in both competitions In many years of touring the team is yet to be defeated, and include victories over the national teams of Mexico, Estonia and Australia amongst their recent successes. The rugby team also recently wrote, directed and starred in a satirical production entitled Gladiat-Rah, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won five Durham University Drama Awards. Many ex players are seen playing for A Few Good Men Cricket Club. The college has extensive sporting facilities, which aids the high level of sporting attainment.
Hild Bede's Chapel holds services twice a week during term time on a Wednesday evening and Sunday morning to which members of the public are invited to attend. The chapel choir is one of the finest in the region.
Hild Bede Theatre is the biggest college drama society in Durham and they put on at least 3 productions annually in Caedmon hall, including a musical at the beginning of the third term. In 2009-10 they won 2 Durham Oscars, "best college play" for "Who's afraid of Virginia woolf" and Best college musical for 42nd Street
42nd Street (musical)
42nd Street is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin, and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production, directed by an ailing Gower Champion and orchestrated by Philip J. Lang, won the Tony Award for Best Musical and became a long-running hit...
. They have won the latter more times than any other Durham theatre group, having won 6 times including 5 wins in the past 6 years.
Hild Bede also hosts the longest running alternative music event within the university, Full Collapse. The event is run bi-weekly in Caedmon's Undecroft and has been running for 10 years. The DJ's of Full Collapse have arranged with the organiser's of Revolver, Durham Student Union's weekly dance night, to provide alternative music in what has become known as "Partial Collapse"
Additionally, Hild Bede houses the only student cinema in Durham, Bede Film Society. The society shows recent films on a 35mm projector with Dolby Digital surround sound on most weekends of term, with the occasional midweek showing. The society was started over 30 years ago, before the merging of the two colleges, showing films on a 16mm projector.
Each year, several members of the college are awarded the Ann Boynton Award for outstanding contribution to college, for those who embody the spirit of the college whilst maintaining outstanding academic excellence. Winners of the award can be viewed on the college website.
Bede
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- Charles Kidd, editor of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (never graduated) (1970–1972)
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(1991–1995), Deputy SRC President in her final year. - Stuart MacRaeStuart MacRaeStuart MacRae is a British composer.- Education and career :Stuart MacRae studied at Durham University with Philip Cashian and Michael Zev Gordon, and subsequently with Simon Bainbridge and Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama...
, composer (1993-1997) - Mark Rylands, the Bishop of ShrewsburyBishop of ShrewsburyThe Bishop of Shrewsbury is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury in the Province of Birmingham, England.The diocese covers an area of of the counties and unitary authorities of Cheshire, Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin with parts of Derbyshire, Halton, Merseyside, Greater...
(1979-1982) - Rupert WhitakerRupert WhitakerDr Rupert Whitaker is founder and Chairman of the Tuke Institute, an international think-tank that promotes standards in medicine and medical science. He was one of the founders of Terrence Higgins Trust a charity set up to provide direct services for people with HIV and to advocate on their behalf...
, founder and chairman of the Tuke Institute (1981) - Matt WindowsMatthew WindowsMatthew Guy Newman Windows is an English cricketer. He attended Clifton College in Bristol, representing the First XI for many years as well as being a double foster cup champion at rackets. He is a right-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler...
, Gloucestershire cricketer (1990s)