Burn Hall, County Durham

Burn Hall is a country house in County Durham. It is a Grade II* listed building.[1]

Burn Hall

History

The house was designed by Ignatius Bonomi for Bryan John Salvin and completed in 1834.[1] It remained in the Salvin family until Marmaduke Henry Salvin died in 1924 and the house was acquired by St. Joseph's Society for Foreign Missions which established a school for boys in the hall.[2]

St Joseph's Missionary Society became the Mill Hill Missionary Father's. The seminary closed to full time students in June 1971, when the costs of training priests became prohibitive. The building was acquired from the Society by Mrs Audrey Alliston in 1995[3] and the restoration of the main house and the redevelopment of the area to the rear, by Jane Darbyshire Associates, won the City Trust's annual award, for the sympathetic style of the work in 1998.[4]

References
  1. "Burn Hall". British listed buildings. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  2. "'Parishes: St Oswalds's - Manors', in A History of the County of Durham: Volume 3, ed. William Page". London. 1928. p. 157-174. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  3. "A Tale of Three Schools". Kashmir Network. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  4. "Architectural commendation of the year". Durham City. Retrieved 21 February 2016.

Further reading
  • Margot Johnson. "Burn Hall" in Durham: Historic and University City and surrounding area. Sixth Edition. Turnstone Ventures. 1992. ISBN 094610509X. Page 38.

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