CAMPAIGNERS are celebrating a National Lottery grant that could help save
a derelict seminary described as being of world significance.
They hope the £45,600 cash injection, reported in yesterday's Evening
Times, will be the first step towards saving the "massively important"
building.
St Peter's Seminary, near Cardross, Dunbartonshire, was built in 1966 to
train priests, but it closed in 1980.
Vandals and the weather have taken their toll and the massive, concrete
building is now derelict and unsafe. The dramatic black marble high alter
has been smashed and the seminary set on fire.
The building, which is still owned by the Catholic Church, is A Listed but
was recently added to the 100 most endangered sites list in the World
Monuments Fund.
On Tuesday, the Scottish Arts Council's National Lottery Public Art Fund
awarded NVA, a Glasgow based environment arts charity, £45,600 to
draw up a plan to create "significant" temporary and permanent art works
at the seminary and in surrounding Kilmahew Woodlands.
NVA has been working closely with property developer Urban Splash for
the past year to explore a variety of ways of transforming the building
and 120 acres of semi-ancient woodlands The grant has been widely
welcomed by fans of the historic building, who hope it is the first step
towards restoring it.
James H _________________ The blinding obvious is what you showed to me.....
I'd let the NVA do their thing and then spend lottery millions making it impenetrable with a solid 50 foot fence blocking it off to only but the true explorer.
Tarting it up will only detract from it's ruinous charm.
You'd think they'd use pictures..... oh, never mind :) _________________ Now coming at you with 95% more significance, 1% less salt and virtually fat free!
They did they used a priest and a catholic church...
They have never let the facts get in the way of a good balls up _________________ MY FLICKR
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