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St Peter’s Roman Catholic Seminary
St Peter’s Roman Catholic Seminary in the coastal village of Cardross in Argyll & Bute is
one of Scotland’s most significant modernist buildings and has been designated as having
‘world significance’ by international architecture conservation organisation Docomomo.
Designed in the mid 1960s by Isi Metzstein and Andy MacMillan for the firm Gillespie, Kidd
& Coia, the seminary fell into disuse in the 1980s and is now the subject of ambitious
restoration plans. In its current state, it offers a unique, atmospheric and flexible location
for feature and television productions. Award-winning documentaries
Space and Light
by
Murray Grigor (1972) and
Space and Light Revisited
(2010) shot at St Peter’s, which also
staged major public artwork ‘Hinterland’.
Photo credit: Tom Kidd/Alamy
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Cardross, Scotland
