seminary

For years, the seminary housed students training to become priests. Priestly formation began here in 1928 when the vacant monastery was purchased. In this incredible seminary, you can find remnants of what were once the living quarters, the refectory, and the kitchen. There are grand wooden...

St Peters Seminary was a bold design for the training of priests. Deliberatley slightly remote. The Building is pure brutalist architecture, it is a listed structure. However sadly in in a state of severe decay. Access is really easy with gates wide open. Access to the upper levels is easy as...

A few from a trip to St Jo's back in 09, when I posted these images originally, 28days received a notification from the owners legal team to take them down and they got sent into the hidden forums. I've seen some recent images and its in a right mess. Lots more if its of interest.

March 2025 Visited with @Mr Budge en route home from a trip to the highlands, I can remember looking at photos of this place around 2014/15 and thinking I quite fancy it for myself, but tor whatever reason I never made the trip up, that is until now. When I arrived at the location I knew that I...

Introduction Ever since I started getting into the hobby several years ago, I have always known about St. Peters and have always wanted to visit. Being over a 7-hour drive away, I didn’t think I would ever do it, but me and @JakeV50 decided to plan and pick a week to do this and some other bits...

St Peters Seminary brutalism /ˈbruːtəlɪz(ə)m/ a stark style of functionalist architecture, especially of the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by the use of steel and concrete in massive blocks. "the long, low, concrete-faced buildings were remarkable solely for their brutalism" Just a quick...

Hello, Everybody... I hope you are all having a pleasant day. I recently visited St Peter's Seminary in Cardross and did some research on the history of the location. The building opened in 1966 and was known for its modernest/brutalist architectural design. During its years of activity, the...

Yes, Its the one we've all seen before. I thought the same, until I came across a certain YouTube video showing an incredible amount of detail on all areas of the building. So as I like to do, I made comparison shots, and I thought it worked out well enough to make a whole report just on it...

This place surely needs no introduction as it seems like its been done plenty of times, i decided to make my first visit here after hearing there are diggers on site so i thought i'd try and check it out before its too late, the fence is still there as are the 2 guards and the diggers have...

This place is a true OG-era urbex icon that needs little introduction. For many years I've seen it featured in books and articles and even the excellent 2007 film 'Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness'. Whilst on a Scotland roadtrip this year I finally got the chance to check out this...

History Completed in 1966 in a brutalist style this Roman Catholic priests training college never reached its full capacity of 100 students and also potential due to a change in the church’s change in guidance to priests training, preferring a more community trained approach. Due to this change...

Whats a seminary I hear you ask? I actually had no idea before visiting this place, but I can now confirm its a sort of massive boarding school where children are abused in the name of religion! This place needs no introduction but its still arguably one of the best UK explores so Ill go...

I have always wanted to see this place, I know it's a wreck and been visited lots. But something about the place sitting in the countryside in woodlands away from everything, and you have this massive brutalist building looking like it does not belong there. Designed in 1958 and completed in...

History: This place has been covered many times so more of an update from me. I don't want to just copy and paste a big stream of text again so I’ll give as quick a overview as I can. St Joseph's College is a former Roman Catholic seminary. The foundation of the large building was laid in April...

This was a big tick off the urbex bucket list for me. Been wanting to do this one for about 5 years now...! St Joseph's Seminary is a derelict, deconsecrated Roman Catholic seminary, a kind of priest's training school served by monks. It was founded in 1883 and closed in 1992 (iirc) and has been...