{"id":37331,"date":"2023-08-18T17:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37331"},"modified":"2023-08-18T17:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:24:41","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-suspected-arson-attack-devastates-part-of-historic-ushaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37331","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Suspected arson attack devastates part of historic Ushaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/69\/Ushaw_college.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37332\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Former-Junior-Seminary-Chapel-of-St-Aloysius-at-St-Cuthberts-College-Ushaw-Alex-D-via-Commons-Wiki.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a>Deep sadness has been expressed about a devastating fire that ripped through parts of a historic former seminary after a suspected arson attack at Ushaw House, reports <em>The Northern Echo.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration: Former Junior Seminary Chapel of St Aloysius at St. Cuthbert&#8217;s College, UshawAlexD, CC BY-SA 3.0 via <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 The Junior House\u2026.has frequently been targeted by vandals\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Northern Echo<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The fire at Ushaw House and Gardens, near Durham, broke out in the unoccupied Junior House and spread to a chapel designed by Edward Pugin and listed on Historic England\u2019s At Risk register.<\/p>\n<p>The Junior House, a Gothic Revival building dating back to 1859, has been boarded up since its closure in 1972 and has frequently been targeted by vandals\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Joe O\u2019Donnell, Director of The Victorian Society, expressed \u201cdeep sadness\u201d over the fire at the Grade II listed buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Ushaw&#8217;s commercial director, Jonathon Ward, confirmed that the fire broke out in the former school building, and then spread to the chapel.<\/p>\n<p>Joe O\u2019Donnell\u2026 said:\u2026 \u201c\u2026.Nationally important buildings like this must be kept properly secured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe custodians of Ushaw should now quickly move to secure and restore them, and redouble their efforts to find a new use, which is ultimately what is required to prevent these kinds of incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/news\/23646666.suspected-arson-attack-devastates-part-historic-ushaw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep sadness has been expressed about a devastating fire that ripped through parts of a historic former seminary after a suspected arson attack at Ushaw House, reports The Northern Echo. image for illustration: Former Junior Seminary Chapel of St Aloysius &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37331\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37333,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37331\/revisions\/37333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}