Fascinating building to view. It's location - whereby it is too remote and with no vehicle access- has done for it. It is out of town and nobody cared for it. Very sad. I think it is beautiful. Has some real "wow' factor despite vandalism and lengthy abandonment
Architects are the same everywhere Preston bus station was built in concrete in the 1960s and was by all accounts and useless building. Nevertheless they got it Grade II listed and the council had to preserve it. The BBC Television Centre - the round one they closed down a few years ago was another building that was absolutely useless to work in. That's gone presumably the patch of land it was on was worth too much.
After the Catholic diocese abandoned the seminary in February 1980 it was temporarily used as a drug rehab centre between 1983 and 1984 but was consolidated into the older ajacent Kilmahew house (demolished in 1995 after arson destroyed it) before being left completely unoccupied after 1987. As of late July 2020 ownership of the property has been transferred from the archdiocese of Scotland to a charitable trust after decades of trying to offload it but future plans are yet unannounced
The faillure of this building is only surpassed by the faillure of understanding why it failled by all its fans A lot of irony also in the fact that an architeitectural ideology so bent on destroying the past is now begging to society to save one of its horrors because "historic interest"
I've watched a few documentaries on YT about SPS now, it's heartening to see archive footage of how the building looked in the day which others have neglected to include. The question that should be asked in this age of the climate crisis is what is the lesser carbon footprint, leaving it standing to slowly decay or (partially) demolishing/restoring it? As some have noted in comments to other videos on the subject, perhaps accidentally dropping some Japanese knotweed into the ground may be the answer...
I lived there in the older house in those grounds in the late 80s ,even then St. Peter’s was in a state ,I wonder how it got like that so quickly,the main house was in perfect condition then ,shame to see that demolished now too.
@@fenellainnis7216 that is interesting, CZcams here and then internet is awash with images when it was new up to the early 70s, and from about 2009 onwards in its ghastly state, but no pictures from the intervening 30ish years (80s and 90s).
The fact this ugly, useless, abandoned building is considered a 'masterpiece' by architects just makes the profession look ridiculous. Might as well give grade A listing to an inflamed appendix.
Fascinating building to view. It's location - whereby it is too remote and with no vehicle access- has done for it. It is out of town and nobody cared for it. Very sad. I think it is beautiful. Has some real "wow' factor despite vandalism and lengthy abandonment
i made a short documentary here 2 days ago, What a lovely building and lovely architecture, just wish that vandals diddent go and ruin the place
Yes. It's a shame. Nice to hear it is at least still there.
Architects are the same everywhere Preston bus station was built in concrete in the 1960s and was by all accounts and useless building. Nevertheless they got it Grade II listed and the council had to preserve it. The BBC Television Centre - the round one they closed down a few years ago was another building that was absolutely useless to work in. That's gone presumably the patch of land it was on was worth too much.
After the Catholic diocese abandoned the seminary in February 1980 it was temporarily used as a drug rehab centre between 1983 and 1984 but was consolidated into the older ajacent Kilmahew house (demolished in 1995 after arson destroyed it) before being left completely unoccupied after 1987.
As of late July 2020 ownership of the property has been transferred from the archdiocese of Scotland to a charitable trust after decades of trying to offload it but future plans are yet unannounced
That was great am going to visit tomorrow with the drone .
The faillure of this building is only surpassed by the faillure of understanding why it failled by all its fans
A lot of irony also in the fact that an architeitectural ideology so bent on destroying the past is now begging to society to save one of its horrors because "historic interest"
turn it into a paintball arena ;) 🤣
I've watched a few documentaries on YT about SPS now, it's heartening to see archive footage of how the building looked in the day which others have neglected to include. The question that should be asked in this age of the climate crisis is what is the lesser carbon footprint, leaving it standing to slowly decay or (partially) demolishing/restoring it? As some have noted in comments to other videos on the subject, perhaps accidentally dropping some Japanese knotweed into the ground may be the answer...
I lived there in the older house in those grounds in the late 80s ,even then St. Peter’s was in a state ,I wonder how it got like that so quickly,the main house was in perfect condition then ,shame to see that demolished now too.
@@fenellainnis7216 that is interesting, CZcams here and then internet is awash with images when it was new up to the early 70s, and from about 2009 onwards in its ghastly state, but no pictures from the intervening 30ish years (80s and 90s).
Maybe it can have a chainmail box built over it in the same was as the Mackintosh House.
The fact this ugly, useless, abandoned building is considered a 'masterpiece' by architects just makes the profession look ridiculous. Might as well give grade A listing to an inflamed appendix.