View of Main Block from East South East. Digital image of C 50200.

Description View of Main Block from East South East. Digital image of C 50200.

Date 18/8/1994

Catalogue Number SC 713655

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 50200

Scope and Content Main block from the east-south-east, 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 balconies around the main block, each faced with large pebbles set into concrete panels. Student priests would live in small study bedrooms, called 'cells', along each floor, reached by internal balconies above the refectory (dining room) and chapels. The block on the far left contains a curving internal ramp leading to the lower chapel, with a series of five small side chapels within the adjacent half-domed structures. 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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