All Saints' Episcopal Church And Church Hall, Smithfield Road, Hilton, Aberdeen

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 12/01/1967 Last Date Amended 29/10/2018 Local Authority Aberdeen Burgh Aberdeen NGR NJ 92274 08758 Coordinates 392274, 808758 — A modernist church in a severely pared back gothic style, built in 1935-36 to designs of A. G. R. Mackenzie of A. Marshall Mackenzie and Son as All Saints' Episcopal Church. The church was internally remodelled and extended as St John's Church for Deaf People in the mid-1970s. The building is currently (2018) in use as a place of worship for the Redeemed Christian Church of God Scotland (Evangelical). It is located in a built-up urban setting, in the Woodside and Hilton area of Aberdeen, on the northwestern outskirts of the city. In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: the hall, office block and single-storey additions. Cruciform in plan, the church comprises a nave with aisles and transepts to the north and south, and a chancel to the east. The unadorned walls are built of roughly squared and stugged granite laid to random courses. The roofs are shallow-pitched or flat and are concealed by dressed granite blocking courses set back from the eaves. The main (east) elevation is blank except for a raised cross of dressed granite and a central gablet rising above the eaves. The south and north elevations each have a full-height transept and a half-height aisle. Both aisles are abutted by single-storey additions (excluded from the listing). The south aisle has a four-light pointed-arch window in dressed granite surrounds. The north transept has a recessed door opening in plain rendered surrounds. The west elevation is entirely abutted by the three-storey office block, added in the mid 1970s (excluded from the lis

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.