Scotland on Sunday - The Review - Beyond repair or a city's saving grace?

History of bad faith by the church leadership : "The wilful neglect of GK&C's St Peter's seminary at Cardross led Professor Frank Walker to write: 'This is a building of national significance, astonishing in its design and its degradation. Nothing prepares one for the shock of the new, grown prematurely old.'

St Bernards in Drumchapel and the Immaculate Conception church, Maryhill, are merely the most notable of GK&C churches demolished with unseemly haste in an effort to cut costs. The fact that the St Patrick's Day lightning strike on St Bernard?s deliberately took place just a few days before it was scheduled to be listed by Historic Scotland was a stark reminder of just how much the church's priorities had changed. Once these decisions are taken their effects cannot be reversed. "

See the link above for pictures of the seminary in the 1960s and now.   An almost unique example of a modern building that has been allowed to decay by the Church authorities.

It was built just before the Second Vatican Council with many altars for individual priests to celebrate Mass.   See other pictures also of the altars.  The desolation of the altars cannot but rend a Catholic heart.