Main Block, view of Lower Chapel, from South, with Diane Watters. Digital image of C 78962.

Description Main Block, view of Lower Chapel, from South, with Diane Watters. Digital image of C 78962.

Date 18/8/1994

Catalogue Number SC 713669

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 78962

Scope and Content Lower chapel in main block of St Peter's College from the south, 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, with the former altar on the right, and the crypt recesses under the curving ramp from the Sanctuary area of the chapel above. The ramp was used for access and for processions to services in this area, and the vaulted roof creates a grand, airy space for worship. 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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