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St Benedict's Church Glasgow, Modern Scottish Building, Development, Images, Scotland

St Benedict's Glasgow : Modern Church Building

St Benedict's Church Building - design by Gillespie Kidd & Coia Architects, Glasgow



St Benedict's

Date built: 1965

Architects: Gillespie Kidd & Coia

St Benedict's Glasgow St Benedict's Church Glasgow St Benedict's Glasgow Church St Benedict's Church
photographs © Adrian Welch

A conservation and repair project by Donald Toner Associates was completed at St Benedict's in Sep 2004.

Address: 753-755 Westerhouse Road, Easterhouse, Glasgow

Please contact St Benedict's church to arrange access

Status: B Listed, 1994

St Benedict's Church Glasgow St Benedict's Glasgow Church St Benedict's Church
photographs © Adrian Welch

Another Modern Glasgow church building by Gillespie Kidd & Coia architects:

Our Lady of Good Counsel
Our Lady of Good Counsel Church Glasgow
photograph © Adrian Welch

Another Modern Glasgow church building by Gillespie Kidd & Coia architects:

St Charles of Borromeo
St Charles of Borromeo
photograph © Adrian Welch

Major Gillespie Kidd & Coia building:

St Peter's College Cardross : Seminary
St Peter's College
photo © Neale Smith

e-architect oppose the destruction of what is widely held to be Scotland's best building of the 20th century and support measures to stabilise and then reverse damage of the last three decades.

St Peters - Scotland's Shame

Destruction of what is widely believed to be Scotland's best building of the 20th century, St Peters Cardross.

"the current estates department in the Church have brought this once beautiful building to its knees." St. Peter¹s Building Preservation Trust

"The months and years go by yet nothing concrete is done to help this building. It is time the Scottish Government step in to arrest the decay". Adrian Welch

St Peter's College was founded in 1874 as a seminary for the Western District at Partickhill, Glasgow.

Cardross Seminary : main page

Space and Light 1972 & Space and Light Revisited 2009 - World Premiere
St Peter's College
image from St. Peter's Building Preservation Trust
Films by Murray Grigor A two-screen presentation with a live performance of the film score.
Cardross Seminary Film

Selected Glasgow Buildings by Gillespie Kidd & Coia:

Buchanan Street, 85 - 1970
Cardross Seminary - 1958-66
Our Lady & St Francis School, 58-60 Charlotte St - 1964
Our Lady of Good Counsel, Craigpark St - 1966
St Anne's Roman Catholic Church, Whitevale St - 1931
St Charles RC Church - 1960
St Charles of Borromeo Church - 1960
St Columba, Hopehill Rd - 1937
King's Park Secondary School

Cardross Seminary won the RIBA Architecture Award, 1967



 




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Glasgow School of Art
photo © Adrian Welch

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Kelvingrove
photo : David Barbour / BDP

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St Benedict's Building - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

 


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