St Ninian's Church, Mid Stocket Road, Aberdeen

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/01/1967 Local Authority Aberdeen Planning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Aberdeen NGR NJ 91935 06571 Coordinates 391935, 806571 — William Kelly, of Kelly and Nicol, 1897-1900. Scots medieval gothic T-plan church, aisled with clerestory, short chancel and transepts. Squared and snecked dark grey granite with contrasting light grey dressings, finely finished to margins. Base course; band course. S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled bay to centre, broad chamfered segmental arched splayed doorway with windows to inside returns, 2-leaf segmental-arched boarded timber door with iron hinges, 3 pointed-arched windows lighting gallery above, 2 small lancets set in gablehead, tooled stone finial to apex, buttresses flanking to left and right, 1902 sundial to centre of right buttress; tripartite window to ground floor of flanking bay to right, 3 small trefoil-headed windows with blind tympana under eaves. Square-plan, 3-stage tower adjoining to right, 3 windows to 1st stage, panelled timber door with arrowslit window flanking to right of left return; 2 arrowslit stair windows to 2nd stage; bipartite window with relieving arch to left return; louvred deeply chamfered pointed-arched openings to each elevation of 3rd stage, crenellated coped parapet, with slate spire, with decorative cast-iron finial. E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 8-bay; lean-to roofed aisle advanced to ground floor of centre 5 bays, 4 tripartite windows, flanked to left by bipartite window, gabled bay to right with tripartite window, 7 bipartite windows to clerestory above; gabled bay advanced to outer left with pair of trefoil headed windows and blind quatrefoil set in gablehead; addition advanced to ground floor of bay to outer right, with bipartite window flanked to right by single window

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.