diff --git a/test/github-issues/5762/entity/User.ts b/test/github-issues/5762/entity/User.ts
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+import {Entity} from "../../../../src/decorator/entity/Entity";
+ import {PrimaryColumn, Column} from "../../../../src";
+ import { URL } from "url";
+
+ @Entity()
+ export class User {
+
+   @PrimaryColumn()
+   id: number;
+
+   @Column("varchar", {
+     // marshall
+     transformer: {
+       from(value: string): URL {
+         return new URL(value);
+       },
+       to(value: URL): string {
+         return value.toString();
+       },
+     },
+   })
+   url: URL;
+
+ }
diff --git a/test/github-issues/5762/issue-5762.ts b/test/github-issues/5762/issue-5762.ts
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+import "reflect-metadata";
+ import {expect} from "chai";
+ import {Connection} from "../../../src";
+ import {User} from "./entity/User";
+ import {createTestingConnections, reloadTestingDatabases, closeTestingConnections} from "../../utils/test-utils";
+ import { URL } from "url";
+
+ describe("github issues > #5762 `Using URL as a rich column type breaks", () => {
+
+     let connections: Connection[];
+
+     before(async () => {
+         connections = await createTestingConnections({
+             entities: [User],
+             schemaCreate: true,
+             dropSchema: true
+         });
+     });
+     beforeEach(() => reloadTestingDatabases(connections));
+     after(() => closeTestingConnections(connections));
+
+     it("should allow assigning URL as a field value", () =>
+     Promise.all(connections.map(async (connection) => {
+         const userRepository = connection.getRepository(User);
+
+         const url = new URL("https://typeorm.io");
+
+         const user = new User();
+         user.id = 1;
+         user.url = url;
+
+         const promise = userRepository.save(user);
+
+         return expect(promise).to.eventually.be.deep.equal(user)
+         .and.to.have.property("url").be.instanceOf(URL)
+         .and.to.have.nested.property("href").equal(url.href);
+     })));
+
+ });