St Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen Church Building, Architecture, Photo, Date, Cafe, Shop

St Nicholas Kirk Aberdeen

North East Scotland Church Building – Historic Scottish Structure

St Nicholas Kirk

Mither Kirk Project
2008-

12th C. East Kirk at the Kirk of St Nicholas to be redeveloped as community facility with café, shop, meeting spaces & public kitchen, over three floors: £5.1m project.

The East Kirk reputedly contains the oldest wall and floor in Aberdeen
Status: A-listed building
St Mary’s Chapel, 15th C to be restored

St Nicholas Kirk
Date built: from 12th Century

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch

West St Nicholas
from 1741
James Gibbs

East St Nicholas
Architect Simpson
1835 – 37

James Gibbs

The church contains the Drum Aisle (the ancient burial-place of the Irvines of Drum Castle) and the Collison Aisle, which divide the two congregations and which formed the transepts of the 12th-century church of St Nicholas (architectural detail survives from this period). The West Church was built between 1751 and 1755, to plans given to the burgh by James Gibbs, in the Italian style, on the site of the medieval nave, the East in 1834 in Gothic-revival style on the site of the choir.

Location:Kirk of St Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland

Triple Kirks Aberdeen

St Nicholas House Aberdeen

Church Buildings

Scottish Architects Practices

Union Square Aberdeen by BDP

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