scottish churches
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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the original early c16 roof runs over chapel and antechapel without a break, it shows similarities to ceilings in bruges.
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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the original early c16 roof runs over chapel and antechapel without a break, it shows similarities to ceilings in bruges.
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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the original early c16 roof runs over chapel and antechapel without a break, it shows similarities to ceilings in bruges, and may be by john fendour
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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the original early c16 roof runs over chapel and antechapel without a break, it shows similarities to ceilings in bruges.
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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view east into the chapel built 1500-20, through the flamboyant screen. the chapel contains more mediaeval furnishings than can be found anywhere else in scotland.
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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early c16 holy water stoup just inside the west door, remarkable given the religious wars and later destruction of anything smacking of popery.
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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even the squints in the early c16 screen are in the flemish style popular in scotland at this time, with flamboyant loop tracery and a central mullion such as can be found at liege.
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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early c16 screen from the antechapel, with multiple squints, too high for use from this side so presumably for those seated in the stalls.
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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view east into the chapel built 1500-20, through the flamboyant screen. the chapel contains more mediaeval furnishings than can be found anywhere else in scotland.
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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arms of aberdeen and of st.machar's, along with the 1641 cyphers of charles I on the fleche releaded in 1655
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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royal arms of king james IV on a buttress on the south side of the chapel, below a sundial. james was king when elphinstone founded the college, but these arms may be c18, as originally there was a sacristy built along this wall, and this lower facade was only rebuilt in granite after its destruction.
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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memorial to professor henry scougail,+ 1678, son of bishop scougal, affixed to the cromwell tower
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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the arms of founder william elphinstone are set above the doorway into cromwell's tower at the n.e. corner of the quadrangle beside the chapel; it was built by monke in 1651 to house more students
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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view into the n.e. corner of king's quadrangle. on the left, the s.e. angle of the chapel, to the right stands cromwell's tower, built by general monke in 1651 to house additional students.
king's college chapel , aberdeen, scotland
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