St. Peter’s Seminary :: More Info

When the Archbishop of Glasgow commissioned a new seminary for St. Peter's College in 1958, the Glasgow design firm of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia were given the brief - the result was a modernist Catholic teaching college built in reinforced concrete with lots of wood and glass. Opening in 1966, the next year it was awarded the prestigious Riba architecture award, but by 1980 it has closed - a victim of the decline in church membership.

The building now stands empty and decaying in the middle of a wood, outside the village of Cardross on the Firth of Clyde. Recently, it had a brief burst of notoriety as the location for a low-budget German porn movie - with the predictable Sun headline of “Porn Again Christians”...