| St John's College | ||||||||||||||||
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| University of Durham | ||||||||||||||||
 Haughton House, St John's College | ||||||||||||||||
 Arms of St John's College Arms: Quarterly argent and azure, in the first and fourth a cross formy quadrate gules, in the second·an eagle wings elevated and inverted Or, in the third a lion rampant crowned with an ancient crown of the last; all within a bordure quarterly of the second and gold. | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 54°46′19″N 1°34′33″W / 54.7718825°N 1.5757305°W | |||||||||||||||
| Latin name | Collegium Sancti Ioannis | |||||||||||||||
| Motto | Latin: Fides nostra victoria | |||||||||||||||
| Motto in English | Our faith is our victory | |||||||||||||||
| Established | 1909 | |||||||||||||||
| Namesake | St John the Evangelist | |||||||||||||||
| Principal | Jolyon Mitchell | |||||||||||||||
| Warden | Nicholas Moore | |||||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 392 | |||||||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 160 | |||||||||||||||
| Senior tutor | Rebecca Bouveng | |||||||||||||||
| Mascot | Olav III (an alligator) | |||||||||||||||
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  Location in Durham, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Part of | Durham Castle and Cathedral | |||||||||||||||
| Criteria | Cultural: ii, iv, vi | |||||||||||||||
| Reference | 370 | |||||||||||||||
| Inscription | 1986 (10th Session) | |||||||||||||||
St John's College is one of the two recognised colleges of Durham University. The college was established in 1909 as a Church of England theological college and became a full constituent college of the university in 1919. The college consists of John's Hall for students studying on any university course and Cranmer Hall (with its own master or warden), an Anglican theological college in the open evangelical tradition. All Durham students reading for theology are automatically members of St John's.[1] Started as a men's college, it was the first Church of England theological college to train men and women together and the first Durham college to become coeducational.
St John's is Durham's second smallest college only to St Chad's. Being an independent college, St John's is financially and constitutionally independent of the university and has a greater degree of administrative independence than the other, "maintained", colleges. However, to maintain its status as a recognised college, the university council must approve the appointment of its principal and be notified of changes to its constitution.[2]
The college has a reputation for being religious due to it being the only college in Durham authorised to train people to priesthood. The college is also strictly traditional and Johnians held their own matriculation ceremony in their 12th-century chapel, in addition to the university wide matriculation at the Cathedral; members of St John's are also required to wear gowns for weekly formal dinners, and still say grace in Latin. St John's is the only college in Durham to not charge its students with laundry cleaning and made the attendance of formals free of charge.[3] The college chapel (Church of St Mary the Less) is also the final resting place of Dame Elizabeth Bowes. She had ten children and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was descended from her third son, George Bowes.[4]
- ^ "The Allocation Process - Postgraduates". Durham University. 2024. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/university.calendar/volumei/statute.colleges_and_societies.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "St John's College - Formals". Durham University. 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "St John's College - History". Durham University. 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.