St Peters-Section 12 Appendices - Historic Scotland

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12. APPENDICES
CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT - VOLUME 1: ST PETER’S SEMINARY FEBRUARY 2008 308 Final Issue
Frauenkirche Church, Dresden
This church was utterly destroyed in wartime air raids and was
assumed to have been lost for ever. But it has recently been faithfully
rebuilt to stand as a potent symbol of recovery for Dresden and East
Germany as a whole.
De Lichtenberg, Weert, Netherlands
This remarkable post-war extension to a Catholic school, a cultural
and recreational complex including an open-air amphitheatre, fell
out of use and was allowed to become derelict. But now it is a
locally listed monument and is the subject of a new rescue initiative
by the specially formed group Behoud de Lichtenberg (Save the
Lichtenberg.)
Selected Analogues
It is again noted that it was not part of this assignment to ‘come up
with the answer’ for the future of St Peter’s Cardross. That must
become the object of a continuing dialogue of the key stakeholders
and others involved. But this report does seek to make a positive
contribution to the dialogue that must continue if consideration
of possibilities for re-use are to be fully explored. In the process
of preparing this report we have been made aware of various
suggestions and initiatives for a possible future for Cardross as an
arts retreat/ cultural retreat/ conference centre.
It has been suggested that there is a great need for a cultural retreat
and conference centre for the arts in the UK, which does not exist at
present. Likewise the suggestion is that there is a growing demand
for ‘executive education’ and in-service professional training and
retreats in the arts and cultural sector, as well as the public and
voluntary sector. There are a few small, scattered venues which are
either without special facilities, or which are specific to a special art
form (see below).
The setting, the space and the potential ease of access by public
transport at Cardross would be important for such an enterprise to
become a successful venue. The architectural status of the Gillespie
Kidd and Coia work together with the unique setting of the historic
gardens and woodlands could become the key to harnessing a wider
public interest in saving the estate and creating a new and successful
use for it.