l1 Town House l 9 Crown Terrace Baptist Church l18 Aquatics Centre l26 St Mary’s Episcopal Church Key to Entries Castle Street. Peddie and Kinnear. 1868-74 Crown Terrace. James Souttar 1870 Regent Walk (Also accessible from Aberdeen Sports Village: Linksfield Carden Place. Alexander Ellis & Access from Union St (steps) or Queen St (level). The ground floor The church has a small Italian gothic tower and a very large window Road) Faulkner Browns. 2014 FG Lee. 1862–65 a Wheelchair Access arcade, main staircase and Civic Rooms including the Town & County with 16th century type Scots tracery under which a new, more World class Aquatics Centre, complementing the existing Sports Known locally as the Tartan Kirkie a No Wheelchair Access Hall are open on Doors Open Day. convenient entrance has been formed. The main sanctuary will be open Village; includes a 50m Olympic standard pool and a 25m pool with because of the polychromatic granite M Musical Entertainment aTH 10am-4pm to view and there will be musical performances throughout the day. diving boards up to 10m, a sauna, steam room, exercise studio and and sandstone masonry and the G Guided tours (assisted) METRH 10am-4pm café. The design allows for flexibility in use and programming, from geometric patterns formed by the a E Exhibition l2 Town House Extension competitions, a base for local performance swimming and is primarily a roofing slates. The simple lofty interior Broad Street. City Architect. 1977 l10 Freemason’s Hall community facility to which everyone will have access to. is equally striking and contains an altar T Toilets Access from Broad St (steps) or Queen St (level). The principal spaces 85 Crown Street. Jenkins & Marr. 1910 aTR 10am-4pm piece by Philip Westlake, a mural by R Refreshments within the modern extension to the Town House, including the Council One of the finest, if not actually the finest, purpose-built building Allan Newton Sutherland and an 18th Available Chamber, are open on Doors Open Day. devoted entirely to Freemasonry within the Scottish Constitution. A l19 Central Fire Station Century Samuel Green organ. The H Historical/Other aT 10am-4pm series of magnificent, richly ornamented interior spaces ensures this Mounthooly Way. Grampian Regional Council Architects. 1997 chancel and nave will be open. information building remains a Doors Open Day favourite. Conducted tours will be There will be tours of the building, a display of modern and historic a(assisted)T(a no disabled toilet) 7 Limited Opening Hours l3 Society of Advocates in Aberdeen organised as well as opportunities to wander freely in the company of vehicles and other displays and demonstrations. Visitors are reminded RH 10am-4pm 1ST DOORS Concert Court. (Off Broad Street between the Town House and the members in attendance. that the fire station remains operational on Doors Open Day. New Town House extension) James Matthews. 1869 a(ground floor only)GETRH 10am-4pm Children must be accompanied by adults. Tours at regular intervals. l27 Harlaw Academy OPEN DAY Unremarkable from the outside, it is the decoration of the interior that aGETR 10am-4pm Albyn Place. Archibald Simpson. is of interest. Most of the ground floor is now used as an extension to l11 St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church 1837-39 the Sheriff Court. On the first floor there is one of the finest private law St Johns Place (off Crown Terrace) Thomas Mackenzie. 1849–51 l20 PDSA Defined by earlier terraced buildings, it was originally built as Mrs Emslie’s libraries in the country with the original decorative scheme by Arthur The north aisle was added in 1898 with the tower being constructed in 26–30 Fraser Place. (Entrance from car park) Institution, a home for orphan girls; most familiar to Aberdonians as the Clyne and the stained glass window on the staircase by Cottier & Co. 1913. Of particular interest inside the church are the great east window, An insight in to the Peoples Dispensary for Sick Animals where the High School for Girls, now Harlaw Academy. Take a tour of the main aH 10am-4pm the memorial nave windows, the Sir Ninian Comper reredos and the main hospital will be open. Conducted tours will be organised including building and selected teaching areas and an exhibition of former pupils 16th Century font from Kinkell Church, Inverurie. The Church, Hall and the clinical areas. Tours every 30 minutes memorabilia. Tours at regular intervals from 10.00am to 3.30pm. l4 The Tolbooth Museum the adjoining Mosque will be open. a(assisted) GTRH 10am-4pm aGETRH 10am-4pm Castle Street. 17th Century aMTRH 10am-4pm The Victorian façade of the Town House conceals a much older building l21 Aberdeen Asset Management l28 Trinity Hall behind. The Tolbooth was built as the Town’s Prison, Court House and l12 Synagogue OPEN SUNDAY ONLY 10 Queen’s Terrace. Mackenzie and McMillan 1877–79 Holburn Street. Mackie Ramsay and Taylor. 1964 toll collection point. For Doors Open Day this year the re-enactment, 74 Dee Street. Before 1822 The well preserved principal rooms of a grand 19th Century typical This is the third Trinity Hall to be occupied by the Seven Incorporated meet the Jailer and the Cook and discover the dark goings on in the In 1945 this Georgian terraced house was acquired by the Aberdeen Aberdeen residential terrace villa. Conducted tours of the building Trades of Aberdeen. The second building and the first purpose-built 17th Century during the day. Hebrew Congregation for use as a synagogue and it remains as such including and an opportunity to view the corporate art collection will Trinity Hall dates from 1847 and the building, on Union Street, now a(ground floor only)H 10am-4pm to this day Celebrating its 70TH anniversary. The principal ground floor be on view. Tours every 30minutes. Access by booking before incorporates one of the entrances to the Trinity Shopping Centre. The room has been adapted and furnished along similar lines to those found 10 September by [email protected] current building re-uses the traceried windows of its predecessor and l5 St Mary’s Chapel New in all Orthodox Synagogues. Conducted tours will be organised. aGET 10am-4pm boasts a dramatic interior and many historic artifacts. Correction Wynd. 1438 NB The synagogue is used for worship on Saturday and is not Tours every 20-40 minutes. St Mary’s Chapel is a vaulted crypt under the East Church beautifully open to the general public. Doors Open Day for this venue only is l22 Institute of Medical Sciences a(chairlift) GETH 10am-4pm built by Aberdeen’s Master Mason, Sir Andrew Wrycht in 1438, Sunday 13 September. University of Aberdeen. Foresterhill Health Campus, Ashgrove Road dedicated by Bishop Elphinstone in 1498 and restored sympathetically aGETR 10am-2pm 7 Limited Opening Hours Sunday Only (Entrance from Car Park off Ashgrove Road) David Murray Associates 1996 l29 Albury Outdoor Sports Centre New by Dr William Kelly in 1898. Within the Chapel there are examples of The University of Aberdeen’s Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) Albury Road, Ferryhill some of the original 16th & 17th Century woodwork panels. Please note l13 Scottish Episcopal Church of St James the Less accommodates over 400 scientists and research staff working on Albury Outdoor Sports Centre is a working partnership with residents in there will be no access to the current archaeology dig area. Holburn Junction. Arthur Clyne 1887 cutting edge molecular and cell biology research. The building was the the community and Sport Aberdeen and is run by volunteers providing aEH 10am-4pm Externally the stump of a tower was the result of the loss of a legacy winning design in a competition. On Doors Open Day the Atrium and facilities for bowling, croquet, tennis and putting. View the facilities or when the congregation chose to move from the Church of England to ground floor and level 2 labs are open and there are guided tours at even take part in some of the sports available. l6 Robert Gordon’s College the Scottish Episcopal Church. Fine stained glass inside. The ground 10.30am, 1.00pm and 2.30pm. a(assisted) TR 10am-5pm Schoolhill. William Adam. 1732 floor areas of the church will be open to view. aGETR 10am-4pm The Auld Hoose, the oldest part of the college founded in 1729 by a(assisted part only)TRH 11am-3pm 7 Limited Opening Hours l30 Duthie Park Eco-Friendly Biomass Heating Units New Robert Gordon (1668-1732) a prosperous merchant of Aberdeen and l23 The Suttie Centre for Teaching & Learning in Healthcare Duthie Park, Ferryhill. (Accessed through the gates next to Danzig. Although there have been many internal alterations, the central l14 Community Health & Care Village Foresterhill Hospital. Bennets Associates 2009 (The building is located former sports pavilion in Duthie Park) stone staircase remains as does the first floor Governors’ Room with its 50 Frederick Street. Hub North Scotland & NHS Grampian. 2013 from entering the hospital complex from Ashgrove House entrance) The Duthie Park Workshop and Green Biomass facility will be open for fine panelled walls. Also included in Doors Open Day is the MacRobert The services in the Health and Care Village, an urban community This striking, timber clad building is designed to maximise natural people to explore this self-sufficient unit, which is fed from felled trees Hall, the new Wood Foundation Science and Engineering Centre and hospital (without beds); have been brought together under one roof from daylight and ventilation, to reduce solar gain and provide a state-of- collected from Council owned venues across the City. Tours of the the Craig Centre for Performing Arts.