Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671833

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ90NW 174.00 Centred on NJ 93875 06307

See Architecture.

NJ90NW 174.01 NJ 93889 06308 Aberdeen, 69 Schoolhill, East and Belmont Church, now Public House.

NJ90NW 174.02 NJ 93883 06293 Aberdeen, 65 Belmont Street, Church Hall

NJ90NW 174.03 NJ 93869 06290 Aberdeen, 71 Schoolhill, Albion & St Paul's Church

Built 1844, architect Archibald Simpson; alterations to East Church, William Kelly, 1900 and again 1965.

HBD List 1965.

Church, built 1844 by Archibald Simpson. Originally three Disruption churches ex St Nicholas grouped together. Early pointed, rubble with brick dressings; brick Marburg spire. Alterations to the E church by William Kelly in 1900 and again in 1965. The style is simple lancet gothic, brick being used to economise; the windows are Tudor Gothic. The ground floor walling is of squared granite rubble and above this the construction is of coarser random rubble with brick dressings to window and door openings; the stone dressings of tower and spire are of soft sandstone from Angus.

Part derelict, the rest converted to a restaurant and function rooms; threatened with demolition (1975).

(Additional bibliography cited).

NMRS, MS/712/83.