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.
Space and Light 1972 & Space and Light Revisited 2009 - World Premiere 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
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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