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Jul 24, 2020 · Last year, the church described St Peter's Seminary in Cardross, near Helensburgh, as an "albatross around our neck" which it could not give away. The "modernist masterpiece" closed in the...
St Peter's Seminary, Cardross, was in use for a mere fourteen years, from 1966 to 1980. After it closed it briefly became a rehabilitation centre, then a contentious and celebrated ruin. A mythology grew up around it like the foliage that entwined it, and debate raged in the media.
- Alexander Fairweather
- 2017
Jul 24, 2020 · Artist Angus Farquhar gives a tour of St Peter's Seminary. The ownership of an A-listed modernist building which the Catholic Church has been trying to get rid of for years has been...
Mar 14, 2016 · For urban explorers, chroniclers of the hauntingly abandoned and those whose appetites to view the ruined feeds a growing online subculture, St Peter's Seminary has earned legendary status.
Aug 3, 2007 · St Peter’s Seminary made it onto the World Monuments Fund’s Watch List 2008. The list is put together by an international panel of experts in archaeology, architecture, art history, and preservation. This is one of those landmark events where you end up not knowing if you should laugh or cry.
One of Springfield’s oldest buildings, 77 Maple Street was in a state of collapse when the Springfield Preservation Trust stepped up to save this historic building. Originally built as the Springfield Female Seminary in 1832, the building seemed certain to become another victim of demolition by neglect. Although protected within the Lower ...
Jul 24, 2020 · The St Peter's Seminary in Cardross, near Helensburgh, will now be taken care of by new charity Kilmahew Education Trust which became the new legal owners as of Friday.
