The A-listed St Peter’s seminary in Cardross, near Dumbarton, remains derelict despite being hailed as an architectural masterpiece. Guardian photographer Murdo MacLeod was given access
It may be hard to get a sense of the building that now looks like a giant abandoned carpark. But when it was first opened in the mid-1960s, St Peter’s seminary in Cardross, near Dumbarton, was recognised as a highly visionary and forward-looking piece of architecture.
The firm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia were commissioned in the early 1950s to design a replacement for the old seminary building which was damaged in a fire in 1946. Plans were finalised in 1961, and construction completed five years later. Filled with timber and glass throughout the modern concrete shell, the building was designed in the brutalist style.
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