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Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, High Street, King's College, New Building
Faculty Building (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, High Street, King's College, New Building
Classification Faculty Building (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Aberdeen University, New King's
Canmore ID 174887
Site Number NJ90NW 7.08
NGR NJ 93950 08234
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/174887
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ 939 081
Monitoring of trenches took place in August and September 2005 for the floodlighting of various University of
Aberdeen buildings including King's College Chapel (NJ90NW 7 ; c 1500), New King's and Elphinstone Hall.
The foundations of the chapel were recorded, including an Xshaped mason's mark on a sandstone block in the foundation of a buttress in the NE corner of the chapel. The foundations of the N wall of the chapel were 0.5-0.6m wide, whereas there was no foundation on the W side: the sandstone blocks were laid immediately onto the stone and gravel subsoil. A stone culvert was recorded adjacent to the W wall of the chapel; this was recorded in 1989 (DES 1989, 18)
during a previous floodlighting scheme. One wall foundation was recorded in a trench in front of New King's; it was probably one of the walls of the brewery seen on the 1867 OS map.
Archive to be deposited in NMRS.
Sponsor: City of Aberdeen.
