Doors Open Day Leaflet 2011

G1 Town House Key to Entries G14 Masonic Temple G22 Central Fire Station Castle Street. Peddie and Kinnear. 1867-73. a Wheelchair Access T Toilets 85 Crown Street. Jenkins & Marr, 1910 Mounthooly Way. Grampian Regional Council Architects. 1997 The main staircase and the magnificent civic rooms will be included One of the finest, if not actually the finest, purpose-built building There will be tours of the building, a display of modern and historic No Wheelchair Access R Refreshments Available again this year. In addition, high in the tower, the Charter Room, a devoted entirely to Freemasonry within the Scottish Constitution. A vehicles and other displays and demonstrations (including the containing the City’s most important archives will be open. M Musical Entertainment H Historical/Other information series of magnificent, richly ornamented interior spaces ensures this spectacular chip pan fire demonstration). Visitors are reminded that the a(except Charter Room) Hs10am-4pm G Guided tours s Children’s leaflet building remains a Doors Open Day favourite. Conducted tours will be fire station remains operational on Doors Open Day. Children must be E Exhibition 7 Limited Opening Hours organised as well as opportunities to wander freely in the company of accompanied by adults.Tours every 20 minutes. G2 Town House Extension 1st DOORS OPEN DAY members in attendance. aTGRE10am-4pm Broad Street. City Architect. 1977. a(ground floor only) HTRG 10am-4pm Access from Broad St (steps) or Queen St (level). For the first time, G8 St Peter’s Church G23 Museum of Education: the Victorian Classroom the principal space within the modern extension to the Town House, the Justice Street. James Massie 1804. G15 Quaker Meeting House Skene Square School Annexe, Skene Square. Enter from Rosemount Council Chamber, is included in Doors Open Day. The church is hidden away off the Castlegate: from an elegant arched 98 Crown Street. William Kelly 1903 Place or Skene Square. aET 10am-4pm gateway incorporated into a tenement a pend leads into the delightful little The Meeting House is the only building in Scotland built as a Quaker The Victorian classroom is housed in the building to the rear of Skene Chapel Court. The façade onto the court dates from Harry Leith’s 1817 Meeting House and still used for this purpose today. It features the Square School. The current buildings show evidence of school design G3 Marischal College extension to the church. The walled garden at the rear of the priest’s plain simplicity of a typical Quaker Meeting House with an elders’ at the end of that century including, for example, separate entrances Broad Street. Archibald Simpson 1837-44. Marshall Mackenzie 1893- house will be open if building works permit (no wheelchair access). bench. It houses full-scale photos of two of the panels of the 1970’s for boys and girls. Within the Museum of Education a room has been 1906. Holmes Partnership 2011 aHETR 10am-4pm Quaker Tapestry relating to Quaker history in the North East of reconstructed and equipped in the style of a classroom in Aberdeen as This stunning landmark building has now been converted for use as Scotland. it would have been in Victorian times. This style existed in certain Aberdeen City Council’s new corporate headquarters. For Doors Open G9 Salvation Army Citadel aHTER 10am-4pm schools well into the 20th century. Day the public reception areas and the quad will be open. Castlegate. James Souttar 1893-96. aEs 10am-2pm 1 Limited Opening Hours aHT 10am-4pm Externally one of Aberdeen’s most prominent landmarks. Tours of the G16 Crown Terrace Baptist Church remodelled interior are available on Doors Open Day. Crown Terrace. James Souttar 1870 G24 Aberdeen Asset Management 1st DOORS OPEN DAY G4 Society of Advocates in Aberdeen aGTRH 10am-2pm 1 Limited Opening Hours The church has a small Italian gothic tower and a very large window 10 Queen’s Terrace. Mackenzie and McMillan 1877-79. Concert Court. (Off Broad Street between the Town House and the with 16th century type Scots tracery under which a new more Enter from Prince Arthur Street. The well preserved principal rooms Town House extension) James Matthews. 1869 G10 Carmelite convenient entrance has been formed. Musical performances show just how grand a nineteenth century Aberdeen residential terrace The Society of Advocates in Aberdeen has been in existence for more Stirling Street. James Souttar 1869 and 1881, William Henderson 1885 (recorders and singing) at 11-11.30am, 2-2.30pm and 3-3.30pm could be. than four hundred and fifty years. The Society’s present building was The former Imperial Hotel. In the 19th century the guests included aTHM 10am-4pm TOURS EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR BETWEEN 10AM AND 3PM. sited to take advantage of proximity to the new Peddie and Kinnear foreign royalty and many other titled persons en route to Balmoral. aGT 10am-4pm Sheriff Court House. Unremarkable from the outside, it is the Talks on the archaeology of the Green and short tours of the hotel G17 The Church of St John the Evangelist decoration of the interior that is of interest. Most of the ground floor is at 10am and 11.30am St John’s Place (off Crown Terrace). Thomas Mackenzie 1849-51. G25 CLAN Cancer Support 1st DOORS OPEN DAY now used as an extension to the Sheriff Court. On the first floor there is aTREHG 10am-1pm 1 Limited Opening Hours Of particular interest inside the church are the great east window, the CLAN House, 120 Westburn Road. Portico Design 2011 one of the finest private law libraries in the country with the original Comper reredos and the 16th century font. Also open are the cloister The former CLAN Centre in the converted Rosemount Church was decorative scheme by Arthur Clyne. Notice also the stained glass G11 Kirk of St Nicholas and refurbished Church Centre. On Doors Open Day the adjoining opened for Doors Open Day on several occasions. This year there is window on the staircase by Cottier & Co. Union Street. 12th century onwards. Mosque also opens its doors to visitors. the opportunity to see its recently completed, purpose-built successor. a 10am-4pm Known as the “Mither Kirk” it was founded around 1150 and was one of a(no disabled toilet) THGER 10am-4pm aETRG 10am-4pm the largest medieval Burgh Kirks in Scotland. The late 12th century G5 The Tolbooth transept, known as Collison’s Aisle, still survives and since 1990 has G18 Trinity Hall G26 Aberdeen Music Centre 1st DOORS OPEN DAY Castle Street. 17th century. contained a chapel, created in thanksgiving for 25 years of the oil Holburn Street. Mackie Ramsay and Taylor 1964. Northfield Academy, Granitehill Place. The Victorian façade conceals a much older building behind. The Tolbooth industry and as a memorial to those who have lost their lives. This is the third Trinity Hall to be occupied by the Seven Incorporated The Music Centre gives Aberdeen’s school children the opportunity to was built as the Town’s prison, court house and toll collection point. For many years St Nicholas has consisted of two churches: Trades of Aberdeen. The original was created from the former perform together in larger groups and ensembles. The Senior Concert For doors Open Day this year the re-enactment involves 19th Trinitarian Friary (hence the name) when this was acquired in 1631.The Band has excelled at the last two Scottish Concert Band Festivals, century bodysnatching. In December 1831 a riot led to a crowd West St Nicholas is the work of James Gibbs, an Aberdonian and the first purpose-built Trinity Hall dates from 1847 and the building, on winning Gold Plus Awards and The Outstanding Soloist Award each breaking into and setting fire to the Anatomical Theatre on St architect of such buildings as St Martin in the Fields, London. West St Union Street, now incorporates one of the entrances to the Trinity year. Doors Open Day is a chance to see and hear the various bands Andrews St after a dog dug up fragments of human bone in the Nicholas was built between 1752-5, after his death, and retains its Shopping Centre. The current building re-uses the traceried windows of rehearsing. theatre’s grounds. Join the magistrates as they try to get to the original interior. its predecessor but otherwise the architecture is very much of its a(to Assembly Hall and coffee area only) TRE 9:30am-2.30pm 1 bottom of what was going on. Re-enactments at 1pm, 2pm & 3pm. period. The interior is very dramatic and contains many furnishings and Limited Opening Hours aH 10am-4pm East St Nicholas was built by Archibald Simpson in 1835-7. It was artefacts that have been used in all three Halls. gutted by fire and rebuilt in 1875-7 by William Smith who also built the aGHT 10am-4pm G27 International School of Aberdeen G6 Grampian Police Headquarters current central tower and spire. The East Kirk is currently closed Pitfodels House, North Deeside Road, Cults. Haliday Fraser Munro 2010 Queen Street following an archaeological excavation, the first phase of the G19 Aberdeen RNLI Lifeboats The new school is built within the grounds of Pitfodels House and The building occupies a site which has a long association with policing in remodelling of the interior. Display material will illustrate the proposals. Waterloo Quay. incorporates the listed building. Impressive range of facilities and the City, as it is partially located on ground where Victorian Police buildings The tower will be open and there will be recitals on the carillon The lifeboat station is entered from the eastern end of Waterloo Quay internal spaces.

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