St Nicholas' Congregational Church And Church Hall, Belmont Street, Aberdeen

James Souttar and William Leslie, 1865 (see Notes). Outstanding 2-storey, 5-bay Italian Romanesque former chapel now converted to nightclub with prominent highly decorative curved apse to rear, tall corner towerlets and distinctive corbelled arch motif to front and rear gables; round-arched openings. Hammer-faced granite ashlar with pale sandstone dressings. Base course, string course and upper storey cill course.

Principal (E) elevation: central round-arched doorway with stepped recessed marble Corinthianesque nook-shafts and tall narrow flanking openings. Above, large central rose stained glass window with sandstone tracery surmounted by smaller quatrefoil opening. Tall 4-stage octagonal towerlets flank entrance with top storey of free-standing columns capped by slated octagonal roof. Further tall and narrow openings to outer left and right.

Rear (W) Elevation: advanced 5-window rounded apse with columned mullions; multi-arched eaves gallery above; square corner buttresses flanking; substantial moulded cornice with 2-stage corner towers rising above, breaking eaves line at base. Regular arrangement of openings to side elevations.

Fixed-pane stained glass windows throughout; grey slate; coped stacks set low on N pitch of roof; clay cans. Cast-iron rain water goods.

INTERIOR: Many original features remain including gallery with interlacing-arch detailing. Good stylised floral stained glass windows. Painted ceiling in apse with roundels depicting biblical symbols. Fine plasterwork throughout. Some interior alterations to accommodate nightclub.