Accommodation and Buildings
Students who study at St Chad's are accommodated in nine different houses: No. 1, Main College, Lightfoot House, Langford House, Grads (which contains one of the oldest hanging staircases in England) and Ramsey House all house undergraduates; Hallgarth Street, Epiphany House and Trinity Hall are home to the college's postgraduate community.
Main College houses the major public areas and most college offices. At the centre of Main College is the Quad, a glassed-in quadrangle built for the college's centenary in 2004. The college's dining hall, the Moulsdale Hall, is adjacent to the Quad. The Durham Media Institute, the college bar and gymnasium are located in this building.
There are three library rooms on the ground floor of Main College (the Bettenson Room and the Brewis and Williams Libraries). The Williams Library doubles as a multi-media room and is often used for meetings and lectures. There are two more libraries on the first floor: the Wetherall Library, which houses most of the Theology and Philosophy collections; and the Reserve Library, which contains the core curricula texts for all of the courses currently on offer in the university (as well as the special Church History and Liturgy collections). The Fenton Library and the Trounson Libraies, which opened in October 2006, are located on the third floor. Comprising three separate rooms, the Fenton and Trounson Libraries are is used primarily for private study, containing individual study carrels. The College is unusual (in the Durham collegiate context) in the extent to which it has invested in libraies and study space.
The university holds most of the college's medieval manuscripts and its oldest books.
The College Chapel was built after the First World War. Intended only as a temporary building, the unheated woodframe building seats 120 people and has been in continuous use. The Chapel's contents are older than its structures, with older donated pews from various churches and a ballroom dance floor from a decommissioned ocean-liner.
Most of the college buildings are Grade II listed.
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