Building record MAB24437 - ST PETER'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, ABERDEEN

Church built in 1803, Presbytery (formerly an 18th century church) and ancillary buildings.

Church built in 1803, Presbytery (formerly an 18th century church) and ancillary buildings. The church was designed by James Massie, 1803-4, the porch to the courtyard added 1817. It is a simple 3-bay Gothic church with a crenellated entrance at the northwest corner of a plain courtyard. The courtyard is entered via a pend at 1-7 Justice Street contains 2-storey, 3-bay dwellings to the west and east (1-5 Chapel Court) and a 2-storey, 2-bay Presbytery to the north. The present church replaced a 1774 Catholic church on the site of the present presbytery with the chapel on the ground floor and a house above. The congregation had expanded by the beginning of the 19th century, requiring a new church; the old church was subsequently altered to become the present Presbytery. The church closed in 1860 (after the opening of St Mary's Cathedral) although No.2 Chapel Court was used as a boys school and the church was retained as its chapel. In 1862 a Colony of Sisters arrived to occupy the Presbytery and the building is shown on the OS 1st edition map as a Home for the Aged and Infirm, The church was closed again in 1872 but reopened in 1880. See NJ90NW2036 for recording of church rooms and watching brief. Within Chapel Court is a commemorative plaque on the site of the house where two Catholic Bishops, James Grant and John Geddes, died in 1778 and 1799 respectively. who died in the house on the site. On St Peter's Church is a commemorative plaque to Mother St Basil, Foundress of the Congregation of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth.

Period Notes
Listed 12/01/1967

ABERDEEN CITY COUNCIL, 2013, PEOPLE AND PLACES ABERDEEN (Bibliographic reference). SAB8383.

Record last edited

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