Aberdeen City HER - NJ90SW0939 - NIGG PARISH CHURCH

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Primary Reference	NJ90SW0939
Name	NIGG PARISH CHURCH
NRHE Card No.	NJ90SW57
NRHE Numlink	112963
HES SM No.	NULL
HES LB No.	19945
Site Form	Standing Structure
Site Condition	Complete 2
Details	Former church, no longer in use, built in 1829, designed by John Smith. It replaced the medieval church which is thought to have stood on approximately the same site. It is in perpendicular style, of pinned rubble with wood tracery and a battlemented west tower with belfry. The tower is of four stages with slender buttresses at each corner topped by tall gabletted pinnacles. The church incorporates fragments of the earlier church including 1704 belfry, 1763 weather vane and 1759 Mowat bell. There is watch house. The church is surrounded by a large graveyard, extended in the 20th century to incorporate a war memorial (NJ90SW1015). The churchyard contains 22 Commonwealth war graves of the First and Second World Wars.
Last Update	14/09/2022
Updated By	cpalmer

Compiler	ACU
Date of Compilation	13/09/2017

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National Grid Reference: NJ 9464 0315

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Monument Type 1	Monument Type 2	Monument Type 3	Order	Probability
GRAVES	WORLD WAR I		J	100
GRAVES	WORLD WAR II		K	100
GRAVES	WAR	COMMONWEALTH	L	100
CHURCHES		SITE OF	B	100
TOWERS	CHURCH		C	100
BELFRIES			D	100
CHURCHYARDS			E	100
GRAVEYARDS			F	100
WEATHER-VANES			G	100
BELLS			H	100
WATCH-HOUSES			I	100
CHURCHES			A	100