Saint Peter?s Seminary Cardross Study, Modern Scottish Architecture, Architectural Education Dissertation
Saint Peter?s Seminary Cardross Study
29 November 2021
Third Year Architectural Dissertation by Daniel Lomholt-Welch, Scotland

Saint Peter?s Seminary, Cardross: An Ekphrastic Journey Through Liturgies and Leaks
Daniel Lomholt-Welch

Architecture MA(Hons) Dissertation
Preface
Growing up in a family of architects in central Scotland, it was nearly impossible to avoid the ghost of Gillespie Kidd & Coia, and the architecture that they proliferated across Scotland. In fact, I knew of Saint Peter?s Seminary well over a decade before I started at architecture school, and at least fifteen years before I started writing my dissertation. So, to say that this has been brewing for a while is perhaps an understatement. I would firstly like to thank my supervisor, Dr. Dorian Wiszniewski, for his guidance, patience and encouragement during the project. I would also like to thank Adrian Welch and Dr. Jane Lomholt for their constant advice and support with proof-reading throughout the process. And finally, I would like to thank all of my family and friends, to whom this dissertation is dedicated.

This dissertation, much like its author, is steeped in sentimentality. The following piece of work is an attempt to plot a course not only through a building?s decaying matter, but through the sentiments that cling to it and the leaking theories that we would use to explain them.
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