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St Peter's Seminary, Cardross
St Peter's Seminary is a former Roman Catholic seminary near Cardross, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Designed by the firm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, it has been described by the international architecture conservation organisation Docomomo International as a modern "building of world significance". It is one of only 42 post-war buildings in Scotland to be listed at Category A, the highest level of protection for a building of "special architectural or historic interest". It has been abandoned since 1987, and is currently in a ruined state. In July 2020, the site was given to the Kilmahew Education Trust Ltd who plan to reinstate the educational elements of the Seminary Complex after conservation and restoration. History Origin Following a fire in 1946 at St Peter's Seminary in the Glasgow suburb of Bearsden, a new home was needed for the seminary. Discussions began with Gillespie, Kidd & Coia in 1953, but the plans for a new college in the village of Cardross were not finali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardross, Argyll And Bute
Cardross () is a large village with a population of 2,194 (2011) in Scotland, on the north side of the Firth of Clyde, situated halfway between Dumbarton and Helensburgh. Cardross is in the historic geographical county of Dunbartonshire but the modern political local authority of Argyll and Bute. Cardross Village took its name from the historic parish in which it is located and where King Robert the Bruce lived the final years of his life. The Parish of Cardross stretched in area from the River Leven on the west side of Dumbarton to Camus Eskan (near Helensburgh), and stretched as far north to include the village of Renton in the Vale of Leven. The distinction between Cardross village and Cardross Parish is particularly important for students of Scottish history. King Robert the Bruce's documented association with ’Cardross’ occurred three centuries prior to the existence of the modern-day village, and at a time when the name referred to the ecclesiastical parish and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilmahew Burn
Kilmahew Burn is a small river, burn, that runs from the Kilmahew estate, Cardross, Argyll and Bute into the Firth of Clyde The Firth of Clyde, is the estuary of the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland. The Firth has some of the deepest coastal waters of the British Isles. The Firth is sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by the Kintyre, Kintyre Peninsula. The .... It flows close by the ruins of Kilmahew Castle and St Peter's Seminary. The bridge over it in Cardross that carries the main road is named Moore's Bridge and was built in 1688. References External links Rivers of Argyll and Bute {{Scotland-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scotsman
''The Scotsman'' is a Scottish compact (newspaper), compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its parent company, National World, also publishes the ''Edinburgh Evening News''. It had an audited print circulation of 8,762 for July to December 2022. Its website, Scotsman.com, had an average of 138,000 unique visitors a day as of 2017. The title celebrated its bicentenary on 25 January 2017. History ''The Scotsman'' was conceived in 1816 and first launched on 25 January 1817 as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer William Ritchie (Newspaper Editor), William Ritchie and customs official Charles Maclaren in response to the "unblushing subservience" of competing newspapers to the Edinburgh establishment. These two plus John Ramsay McCulloch were co-founders of the venture. The paper was pledged to "impartiality, firm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prospect (architecture Magazine)
''Urban Realm'' is a planning magazine published in Scotland, with a focus on Scottish architecture, Scottish issues. The magazine was established as ''Prospect'' in 1922 by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, and is the oldest architectural magazine in Scotland. It was rebranded as ''Urban Realm'' in 2009 to reflect the wider environment in which architecture operates, covering policy, planning, engineering, and strategic issues, as well as new buildings. It is currently published by Urban Realm Ltd. Carbuncle Awards Intermittently from 2000-2015, the magazine promoted the Carbuncle Awards, which were aimed at highlighting poor design and planning in Scotland. The awards comprised the "Plook on the Plinth" award for "most dismal town", the "Pock Mark" award for the worst planning decision, and the "Zit Building" award for Scotland's most disappointing new building. In 2005, the magazine published a Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings, list of the 100 bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prospect 100 Best Modern Scottish Buildings
In 2005, the Scottish architecture magazine Prospect (architecture magazine), ''Prospect'' published a list of the 100 best modern Scottish buildings, as voted for by its readers. See also * DoCoMoMo Key Scottish Monuments References {{reflist Architecture in Scotland Modernist architecture in Scotland, Lists of buildings and structures in Scotland 2005 in Scotland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesters College
Scotus College was a seminary in Bearsden, Glasgow. It was founded in 1985 under the name of Chesters College and in 1993 was reconstituted as Scotus College. It was then the only remaining Roman Catholic seminary in Scotland. Its closure was announced in April 2009. History St Peter's College, Newlands In February 1980, the Archdiocese of Glasgow transferred its seminary from St Peter's Seminary, Cardross, because of maintenance difficulties, to the site of a former convent of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Newlands, Glasgow. It was also the site of the St Mungo centre, an ecumenical organisation. St Peter's College, Newlands remained there for four years, until November 1984 when it was closed and the students transferred to Bearsden. The old convent was renamed Merrylee House and later demolished to make space for a housing development. In 1997, further construction work was carried out on the site when additions and alterations were made to the chapel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newlands, Glasgow
Newlands is a suburb in the south side of Glasgow, Scotland. The area is mainly residential in character. Shawlands and Langside lie to the north of the district (the White Cart Water forming the boundary), Pollokshaws and Auldhouse to the west, Giffnock (East Renfrewshire) to the south, and Merrylee and Cathcart to the east. Features It has many traditional shops which include The Newlands Cafe. One of the Glasgow Academy preparatory schools is in Newlands, located in a blonde sandstone villa, a type of house extremely common in this area. There was previously a Glasgow Corporation Tramways depot on the site from the 1910s. Newlands has several churches, a tennis club and a park which has tennis courts. The Newlands fete is held annually and takes place within Newlands Park. Notable residents include Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue. History The district originated as farmland in Cathcart Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denomination ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Vatican Council
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the or , was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. The council met each autumn from 1962 to 1965 in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City for sessions of 8 and 12 weeks. Pope John XXIII convened the council because he felt the Church needed "updating" (in Italian: '' aggiornamento''). He believed that to better connect with people in an increasingly secularized world, some of the Church's practices needed to be improved and presented in a more understandable and relevant way. Support for ''aggiornamento'' won out over resistance to change, and as a result 16 magisterial documents were produced by the council, including four "constitutions": * '' Dei verbum'', the ''Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation'' emphasized the study of scripture as "the soul of theology". * '' Gaudium et spes'', the ''Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World'', concerned the promotion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Glancey
Jonathan Glancey, is an architectural critic and writer who was the architecture and design editor at ''The Guardian'', a position he held from 1997 to February 2012. He previously held the same post at ''The Independent''. He also has been involved with the architecture magazines ''Building Design'', '' Architectural Review'', The Architect and ''Blueprint''. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA. Following in the footsteps of Ian Nairn he made a series of four films, ''Outrage Revisited'' (2010) on the banality of Britain's postwar buildings. He is a fan of Le Corbusier. Currently he reports on architecture and design for the website BBC Culture, and he has written articles about Andrea Palladio who was a Renaissance man into architecture and established what is known to be 'Palladianism'. Education Glancey attended St Benedict's School in Ealing, London and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford. Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , ; ), was a Swiss-French architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland to French speaking Swiss parents, and acquired French nationality by naturalization on 19 September 1930. His career spanned five decades, in which he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, as well as North and South America. He considered that "the roots of modern architecture are to be found in Viollet-le-Duc." Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was a founding member of the (CIAM). Le Corbusier prepared the master plan for the city of Chandigarh in India, and contributed specific designs for several buildings there, especially the government buildings. On 17 July 2016, seventeen projects by Le Corbusie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
