Cardross Seminary Film, Building, News, Frank Spedding, RSAMD, Scotland
St Peters Seminary : Cardross Film
Space and Light : Portrait by Murray Grigor of St Peter’s Seminary
post updated 18 July 2023
Location: just north of Cardross, near Helensburgh, Scotland, on the north side of the Firth of Clyde, situated halfway between Dumbarton and Helensburgh
Architects: Gillespie Kidd & Coia
Date built: 1958-66/8; closed 1980
Cardross Seminary Film
Space and Light Revisited
As part of the Book Festival and as a trailer for Brian Dillon’s talk, Filmhouse is screening Space and Light Revisited on the seminary of St Peter’s Cardross on 22 Aug 2010 : see the Glasgow Events page.
Space and Light 1972 & Space and Light Revisited 2009 – World Premiere
Films by Murray Grigor A two-screen presentation with a live performance of the film score.
Date: 21 Sep 2009
Venue: RSAMD, Glasgow
Space and Light was a wordless portrait of St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross. With its haunting score the film captured the flow of spaces and play of light in a day in the life of this modernist masterpiece, Space and Light Revisited – supported by a Creative Scotland Award – is a painstaking shot-by-shot recreation of the original film, made earlier this year in the now derelict rubble-strewn husk.
The score will be conducted by Rory Boyle – a protégée of the film’s composer Frank Spedding – and performed by musicians associated with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Space and Light : PDF – 640kb
Cardross Seminary : main page
Scotland’s Shame
photo © Neale Smith
“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
EXPLORING RUINED SAINT PETER’S : YouTube film
5mins
SCOTLAND’S CREEPIEST BUILDINGS – ST. PETER’S, CARDROSS : YouTube film 3.10mins
Scotland’s Creepiest Buildings – St. Peter’s, Cardross on YouTube
Cardross Building article in full
Cardross won the RIBA Architecture Award, 1967
Location: Cardross, Strathclyde, southwest Scotland, United Kingdom
Glasgow Building Designs
Contemporary Glasgow Property Designs – recent architectural selection below:
Buchanan Wharf Glasgow Office Development
photo courtesy of Drum Property Group
Buchanan Wharf Glasgow Office Development
New Allander Leisure Centre
Design: Holmes Miller
image courtesy of architects practice
Allander Leisure Centre Building in Bearsden
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