Visit to St. Peter’s Seminary, Cardross
A week ago, we visited the fantastic modernist shell that is Gillespie Kidd and Coia’s Seminary for the Archdiocese of Glasgow. Inhabited for only a few years, insufficient student numbers, construction and maintainance problems and a change in the methods of training priests led to its abandonment. It stands, ruined, in a fantastic woodland setting with the sound of streams all around. Planning permission is currently under consideration that would allow the ‘consolidation’ of the building. The operations would strip the building of the remaining plaster arches, timber and everything else that gives the building its incredible character and creates the unique spaces. The future of this incredible building is currently hanging by a thread…
[Twentieth Century Society press release]
[further background]
[A virtual restoration]
[Photography by Dan Dubowitz]