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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST NICHOLAS CHURCH | St Nicholas Church St Nicholas Church St Nicholas Church |
Revd. [Reverend] Mr McCulloch (E.Ch.) [East Church] Revd. [Reverend] Mr Forsyth (W.Ch.) [West Church] Mr A Scatterty (Verger) Annals of Aberdeen (Kennedy's) |
075 | (St. Nicholas Ch. Contd.) "Saint Nicolas is the tutelar of the church here. This saint was born at Patara, in Lycia, and became afterwards Bishop of Myra in that country. Among his many works of charity this is particularly recorded, that hearing of one who was to prostitute his three daughters, merely that they might earn their bread, he sent as much gold as might be a dowry to each of them. He sate in the council of Nice, and vehemently opposed Arius, and dyed the next year, December Sixth A.D. CCC.XXVI. [326] His body was transported from Myra to Bari, in the Kingdom of Naples May ninth A.D. M.LXXV111. [1076.] --- This church has at present, eight silver chalices, four greater (quhare of two gill.) and four lesser, also two silver pattens, gilt, two silver basins, for baptisms, four silver cups and four silver porringers for receiving alms, and two large silver hafted knives for carving the holy bread." ----- (Collections on the Shires of Aberdeen & Banff P. 233.4) (P. 14) The church called of old St. Nicholas Church, is mostlie builded of ashlar, covered with lead, the steeple lykewayes obeliskwayes, rysing up verie high, covered over also with lead, doeth abundantlie supplie the low situation of the church itselff. Ther is no church so neat and bewtifull to be seen in Scotland, and albeit it be past 500 years since it begane to be builded, yet all things about it look so fine and sound, that it seems to be but newlie builded. Off old it was divydit into thrie distinct Churches, the greatest called the Old Kirk, the second the New Kirk, the third, a vaulted church," |
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