Claudia Massie

Dying of the light | 25 February 2016

The brutalist beauty that is St Peter’s Seminary has lain in ruins for decades. This March it is brought back to life as part of Scotland’s Festival of Architecture 2016

issue 27 February 2016

Finding St Peter’s is not straightforward. I approach the wrong way, driving up a pot-holed farm track between a golf club and a wood until a fly-tipped sofa blocks my way. Beyond the sofa, behind padlocked security fencing, stands an old stone bridge. Someone has sprayed ‘Go Home’ on the pillar.

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