Aberdeen, King's College, Chapel. View from North East.
D 46757 CN
Description Aberdeen, King's College, Chapel. View from North East.
Date 14/5/1999
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number D 46757 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies G 83733 CS, SC 1721002, SC 447197
Scope and Content View of the chapel from the north-east, King's College, Aberdeen King's College was founded by Bishop Elphinstone in 1495 with the support of King James IV, hence the name. The college was a truly Renaissance institution with a classical humanist curriculum modelled on that of the University of Paris. The chapel, with its semicircular or apsidal east end, is a long narrow building in red and cream stone. Its front is divided into six bays by projecting buttresses. The tower is surmounted by one of only two surviving medieval crown spires in Scotland. Most of the college was built around 1498-1505. It had timber foundations built on what was known to be swampy ground. The only original buildings surviving are the chapel and the Ivy Tower which formed part of the south-east corner of the old building. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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