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
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
Union Square Aberdeen by BDP
image from architect
Archaeolink Aberdeenshire
image from architect
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St Nicholas Kirk Aberdeen : page
Mither Kirk Project – Website: www.kirk-of-st-nicholas.org.uk/project/