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Accommodation

St Mary’s provides accommodation to a diverse community of students.

We currently have 312 rooms in College at Elvet Hill and, for 2024/25, 48 rooms (PG only) at Brackenbury, Dryburn Court, which is a part of St Mary's postgraduate accommodation for the academic year 2024/25. We offer accommodation to all our first year undergraduate students (around 213 students) and the remaining rooms are used by second, third and fourth year undergraduates, and taught and research postgraduates.
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Teikyo University

St Mary's operates a room exchange scheme with the branch campus of Teikyo University Japan.

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External view of the Brackenbury Accommodation

Brackenbury Accommodation (2024/2025)

Brackenbury, located at Dryburn Court, is a part of St Mary's postgraduate accommodation for the academic year 2024-25,

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Brackenbury Accommodation (2024/2025)

College Catering

St Mary's is a fully catered College.

At St Mary's, all of our students that live at Elvet Hill or in Teikyo are fully catered during term time. Our excellent catering team provide wonderful meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We cater for many different dietary requirements, including vegetarian and vegan. Students living at Brackenbury are self-catered.
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Our Accommodation

All study bedrooms are furnished with a single bed, under bed storage, a wardrobe, desk, shelves and a basin. All rooms have wi-fi.

The majority of first-year undergraduates will be allocated to a standard room with shared bathroom facilities on their corridor. The College has a small number of en-suite rooms which are reserved for returning undergraduates, postgraduates, and those students whose circumstances require en-suite facilities. We have two bedrooms with wet rooms for those students who require this type of accommodation.

The College used to operate a room ballot for first-year undergraduates, which involved moving room every term, but this is no longer the case and students normally remain in their allocated room for the full academic year. The College typically offers standard lets for its accommodation, which means that students can remain in their rooms over the Christmas and Easter vacations (although there is no catering during the vacations)

Each corridor has a pantry area (small kitchens with fridge, kettle and toaster) and communal toilet and shower facilities. The number of rooms on each corridor varies. Some corridors may have as few as 6 rooms, whilst others may have up to 24 rooms. Corridors are normally mixed but the College does offer accommodation to female students requiring female-only accommodation in the Boughton Wing.

Communal areas and study bedrooms are cleaned by the College cleaning team on a regular basis but students are responsible for keeping their rooms and the communal areas tidy.

 

  

Get in touch

Contact us by phone or email below to find out more about accommodation, admissions and student support.

St Mary's College

Elvet Hill Road
Durham
DH1 3LR

 

Tel:+44 (0)191 334 5719