4 Chapel Court, Aberdeen

1 Chapel Court in Aberdeen is a church and presbytery designed by architect and joiner James Massie, built between 1803 and 1804, with a porch added to the courtyard in 1817. The church is a simple three-bay Gothic structure featuring a crenellated entrance at the northwest corner of a square-plan courtyard, which is oriented at right angles to the north. The courtyard can be accessed through a pend at 1-7 Justice Street to the south, and it contains two-storey, three-bay dwellings to the west and east (1-5 Chapel Court) and a two-storey and attic, two-bay presbytery to the north, which has three bays on its garden elevation. The building is constructed from squared and coursed rubble granite with strap pointing on the church, and the presbytery has later piended dormers.

The church features an entrance door with a four-leaf studded timber door and a pointed-arched glazed tracery fanlight above. It has a tripartite rectangular window with stone mullions and pointed-arched Y-tracery openings. The presbytery has a four-panel timber entrance door with a multi-paned rectangular fanlight above. Number 4 Chapel Court is currently used as a church hall as of 2006.

The church predominantly has Y-tracery windows, while the presbytery and Nos 1 and 4 Chapel Court feature 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roofs are covered with grey slates, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods, as well as gable and wallhead stacks.

Inside the church, the interior is simply white-painted and includes timber pews and a pulpit. There is a glazed timber screen to the south with a timber gallery above, and a segmental-arched opening leads to the sanctuary at the north. The church contains two fine carved gilded altarpieces, one of which was undergoing restoration in 2006.

The presbytery has been substantially altered but still retains some six-panel timber doors, a shallow-tread dog-leg stair with a steeply curved timber banister, and simple cornicing.