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St Peter's, Cardross
The ruin of St Peter's College has sat on a wooded hilltop above the village of Cardross for more than three decades. Over that time, with altars crumbling, graffiti snaking across its walls and nature reclaiming its concrete, it has gained a mythical, cult-like status among architects, preservationists and artists.St Peter's only fulfilled its original role as a seminary for 14 years, from 1966 to 1979. As its uncompromising design gave way to prolonged construction and problematic upkeep, the Catholic Church reassessed the role of seminaries, resolving to embed trainee priests not in seclusion, but in communities. Although briefly repurposed as a drug rehabilitation centre, the building was soon abandoned to decay and vandalism.Ever since, people have argued and puzzled over the future and importance of St Peter's. - "Text updated and expanded from "Cardross Seminary : Gillespie, Kidd et Coia and the architecture of postwar Catholicism", published: Edinburgh : Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1997.
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Home Builders
Focusing on the experience of one of Scotland's foremost house-builders during the 19th and 20th centuries, this book features essays by several leading architectural, social and economic historians including copious illustrations, statistical information and documentary evidence. A summary guide to the Mactaggart & Mickel architectural archive, which forms part of the RCAHMS collection, is also included.
Little Houses
This text presents a history of small-burgh conservation in Scotland. It provides a comprehensive overview of the National Trust for Scotland's Litte Houses Improvement Scheme.
St. John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh
Positioned at the westernmost entrance to Edinburgh's Princes Street, St John's Episcopal Church enjoys the enviable picturesque backdrop of the castle and Old Town. This text examines the history and architectural development of St. John's Church from the early 19th century to the present day.
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume IV
After 1830 Catholicism in Britain and Ireland was practised and experienced within an increasingly secure Church that was able to build a national presence and public identity. With the passage of the Catholic Relief Act (Catholic Emancipation) in 1829 came civil rights for the United Kingdom's Catholics, which in turn gave Catholic organisations the opportunity to carve out a place in civil society within Britain and its empire. This Catholic revival saw both a strengthening of central authority structures in Rome, (creating a more unified transnational spiritual empire with the person of the Pope as its centre), and a reinvigoration at the local and popular level through intensified sacram...
Precedented Environmental Futures
This book addresses the built environment through the lens of environmental architecture, and in a holistic manner. It moves gradually from psychophysiology and thinking-doing-feeling modalities, through environmental criteria to environmental modulation, concluding with a debate around mitigation and adaptation. Much use is made of re-interpreting past quotations seen as relevant for environmental architecture. No definitive conclusions are reached, but rather broad discursive messages are offered. The text will have lasting luminance for new generations involved with the built environment.
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