Carden Place United Free Church, 6 Carden Place, Aberdeen

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/01/1967 Local Authority Aberdeen Planning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Aberdeen NGR NJ 92972 06068 Coordinates 392972, 806068 — Robert Wilson, of Ellis and Wilson, 1882; internal remodelling to offices by Michael Gilmour Associates, 1990. Cruciform-plan, gothic church with 2 tower facade. Single storey and basement, converted to 2-storey and basement 1990. Tooled coursed grey granite ashlar, with contrasting light grey long and short dressings, finely finished to margins. Rough-faced battered base course and basement; chamfered reveals to pointed-arched openings; sandstone traceried windows; string course; hoodmould string course; gableted angle buttresses; eaves cornice; eaves blocking course. S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled central bay enclosed by square-plan towers to left and right. 2 flights of steps swept up to central doorway, balustraded parapet, flanked by gableted piers surmounted by decorative iron lamp standards with glass globes; finely finished gableted door surround enclosed by gableted buttresses, with clustered colonnettes, decorative caps set in gablets; deeply chamfered pointed-arched doorway, pair of flat-arched modern glass doors flanked by polished pink colonnettes, supporting decorative brackets, quatrefoil and shouldered stained glass windows to tympanum, trefoil headed blind openings set in gablehead above, decorative cross to apex; small windows flanking to left and right; tall 2-light stained glass traceried window above, flanked by 2 single windows; quatrefoil set in gablehead, gableted finial to apex. 5-stage engaged tower to right; 2 narrow lancets to basement, single lancet centred above to 1st stage, chamfered doorway to right return of 1st stage, decoratively shouldered surround to modern glass door, cu

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.