St Peter's Seminary
Just over two years have passed since my first visit to the ruins of St Peter's Seminary, when I took this photograph of Euan on the altar viewed from the main hall. The ruins were then fascinating and beautiful. I suppose, to an extent, they still are, but, despite having been added in 2007 to the World Monument Fund's '100 Most Endangered Sites', they are now a truly sad sight, and I can relate to what Frank Arneil Walker wrote of the ruins: "nothing prepares one for the sight of the new grown prematurely old." The altar has been smashed into several pieces, one small but still very heavy piece of which I took home with me; the beams of the roof have been burned and fallen; the ground is now totally covered with broken glass and tiles, burnt wood and other rubble.
I like that the wide-angle distortion makes Jocelyn appear to be giant in this photograph.
Cardross, 2010.
St Peter's Seminary
Just over two years have passed since my first visit to the ruins of St Peter's Seminary, when I took this photograph of Euan on the altar viewed from the main hall. The ruins were then fascinating and beautiful. I suppose, to an extent, they still are, but, despite having been added in 2007 to the World Monument Fund's '100 Most Endangered Sites', they are now a truly sad sight, and I can relate to what Frank Arneil Walker wrote of the ruins: "nothing prepares one for the sight of the new grown prematurely old." The altar has been smashed into several pieces, one small but still very heavy piece of which I took home with me; the beams of the roof have been burned and fallen; the ground is now totally covered with broken glass and tiles, burnt wood and other rubble.
I like that the wide-angle distortion makes Jocelyn appear to be giant in this photograph.
Cardross, 2010.