Basic Site Details Name: | King's College | Town, district or village: | Old Aberdeen | City or county: | Aberdeen | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | B Listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Cost of simplified scheme which was executed: £13,773. | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Church | | |
Street AddressesThe following street addresses are associated with this building: | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes | | 24, High Street | Yes | Sacrist's House | | High Street | Yes | New Building |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1773 | | Plans dated | Drawings of College attributed to James Byres. | | 1825 | | Journal reference | Rebuilding of front and other alterations | | 1855 | | | Two alternative schemes: Neo-Jacobean and Oxford Gothic (not built) | | 1855 | | | First plans for new library drawn up | | 1859 | | | Tudor gothic scheme (not built) | | 1859 | 1863 | | Simplified scheme built | | 1868 | 1870 | Construction | Library built | | 1881 | 1884 | | Library extended | | 1888 | | Restoration(?) | Walls & gateways | | 1894 | | | Additions | | 1896 | | | East window on north side, restoration of tracery for Robertson Smith Memorial Window | | 1911 | 1912 | Alterations and additions | New building and gateway to new wing (New King's.) | | 1943 | | | Bookstack | | 1952 | | | Wing connecting Library to Elphinstone Hall | | 1988 | 1991 | Alteration/conversion | Alterations and additions to form visitor centre and cenference centre |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | King's College Centre Ltd | Client for 1990s award |
Related Buildings, Structures and DesignsChild StructuresThis structure or site has the following component or child structures (click on an item to view details): | | Building Name | Notes | | King's College, Botany Department | | | King's College, Elphinstone Hall | Built with stone salvaged from the demolition of Castle Newe. Original scheme by A Marshall Mackenzie, but when asked by Ian G Lindsay about the executed scheme, AGR Mackenzie replied that he 'could not say he was unconnected with it'.
The illustration is from a perspective prepared by Mr T Raffles Davison of a design prepared by Messrs A Marshall Mackenzie and Son, now shown in the exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. The hall is intended for examination as well as general purposes. The site adjoins the old chapel with the 15th century architecture of which it harmonises, and it is connected with the college by an arched cloister. It is built of Aberdeenshire freestone and is covered with Cumberland slates. The roof is of open timber of the hammer-beam type and the walls are panelled in oak. The buildings consist of a hall160 feet by 40 feet, having side rooms or classrooms, with kitchen and cloakrooms and in the basement there is accommodation for the students’ miniature rifle range. The cost is £30,000. [Builder 26 April 1929 p764] | | King's College, Examination Hall | Not progressed. See also Elphinstone Hall | | King's College, Malcolm Bulloch Bookcase | | | Library Buildings, University of Aberdeen (King's College) | | | University of Aberdeen, King's College Sports Pavilion | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Colvin, Howard | 2008 | A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 | | London: YUP. 4th edition | | | Grant, David | | The Office of Works and the Renovation of the Scottish Universities, 1808-89 | | | | | RSA | 1911 | | | | 414 | | Sharples, J, Walker, D W and Woodworth, M | 2015 | The Buildings of Scotland: Aberdeenshire South and Aberdeen | | London and New Haven: Yale University Press | pp23, 85, 184, 195 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Aberdeen Evening Express | 7 December 1964 | | | Obituary of George Angus Mitchell | | Aberdeen Journal | 9 November 1825 | | | | | Aberdeen Journal | 27 August 1862 | | | | | Aberdeen Press and Journal | 8 December 1964 | | | Obituary of George Angus Mitchell | | Architect | 22 June 1888 | | | Supplement |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Aberdeen University Library | Edilis Committee Minutes | | 2 September 1896: AUL U 622 | | Courtesy of Edward Taylor | Information sent via email to Yvonne Hillyard | | Sent April 2011 | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 20092 | | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 20093 | New building of 1911-1912 | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 20094 | Gateway to new wing | | King's College Library, Aberdeen | Plans | | Plans dated 1855 (neo-Jacobean scheme); September 1855 (Oxford gothic scheme); May 1859 (Tudor gothic scheme); 1859 (scheme as built); 1855 First plans dated for library dated; 1868 Library plans dated | | Marischal College Library | Plans | | Plans for 1914 addtions and 1943 bookstack | | Viewfield House, Old Perth Rd, Inverness (1990) | A Marshall Mackenzie & Marr Office List (held by John G Marr in 1960) | | |
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