City of the Great King, Jesus House Aberdeen (former All Saints' Episcopal Church), 13 Smithfield Road, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Church.
City of the Great King, Jesus House Aberdeen (former All Saints' Episcopal Church), 13 Smithfield Road, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- wild-frieze-briar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
A modernist church in a severely pared back gothic style, built in 1935-36 to designs of A. G. R. Mackenzie of A. Marshall Mackenzie and Son as All Saints' Episcopal Church. The church was internally remodelled and extended as St John's Church for Deaf People in the mid-1970s. The building is currently (2018) in use as a place of worship for the Redeemed Christian Church of God Scotland (Evangelical). It is located in a built-up urban setting, in the Woodside and Hilton area of Aberdeen, on the northwestern outskirts of the city. In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: the hall, office block and single-storey additions.
Cruciform in plan, the church comprises a nave with aisles and transepts to the north and south, and a chancel to the east. The unadorned walls are built of roughly squared and stugged granite laid to random courses. The roofs are shallow-pitched or flat and are concealed by dressed granite blocking courses set back from the eaves.
The main (east) elevation is blank except for a raised cross of dressed granite and a central gablet rising above the eaves. The south and north elevations each have a full-height transept and a half-height aisle. Both aisles are abutted by single-storey additions (excluded from the listing). The south aisle has a four-light pointed-arch window in dressed granite surrounds. The north transept has a recessed door opening in plain rendered surrounds. The west elevation is entirely abutted by the three-storey office block, added in the mid 1970s (excluded from the listing).
There are tall and narrow windows with shallow triangular arches to the chancel and transepts. The aisles and clerestory have square-headed tripartite windows in dressed granite architraves, which may have been inserted in the late 20th century. The windows are largely uPVC replacements, most of which are mounted behind earlier frames.
The interior, seen in 2018, has been substantially altered. Little of the original 1930s interior remains except for the shallow-pitched roof and the pointed arched openings to the side aisles, crossing, transepts and chancel. The nave has been shortened to the west end, and floors inserted to create office space and a lift. There are late-19th century timber pews (likely reclaimed from another church). The transepts have been roofed to create additional side rooms. A new decorative stained glass entrance doorway and windows have been inserted into the north and south aisles respectively (dated 2000).
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