Main Block, view of Lower Chapel from North, with Diane Watters. Digital image of C 50211.

Description Main Block, view of Lower Chapel from North, with Diane Watters. Digital image of C 50211.

Date 18/8/1994

Catalogue Number SC 713629

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 50211

Scope and Content Lower chapel in main block of St Peter's College, Cardross, Argyll & Bute St Peter's College was commissioned in 1959 as a seminary (training college) for Roman Catholic priests, to be created adjacent to Kilmahew House which was built in 1868 to designs by John Burnet (demolished 1995). The college was designed 1959-63 by Isi Metzstein, J Cowell and Andrew McMillan of the architectural firm of Gillespie Kidd & Coia, and completed by 1966. It ceased to function as a training college in 1979, and was used as a drug rehabilitation centre 1983-7. It is now derelict. This shows the lower chapel which is reached via the ramp above, with its protective railing. This would have been used as a processional walkway from the main chapel above. The concrete forms on the left were used as altars, and there are crypt recesses on the right. The ceiling above is vaulted. The college was designed to allow students to feel that their spiritual and everyday lives were closely linked by carefully integrated living, teaching and worship areas. The interior spaces were carefully considered as sculptural forms, and great use was made of natural light to highlight important areas. This building has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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