St Peter s Catholic church Aberdeen Scotland uk
St Peter s Church Aberdeen Over the years St Peter s has seen many changes in it s interior decoration The porch and staircase to the left with access to the organ loft are additions to the original church The painting in the porch was the altarpiece of the Chapel of the Visitation the name of the chapel during the preiod of closure gifted from King Charles X of France On entering the church to the left is the bapistry with it s marble font installed in the early 1960s The wonderful stain glass window by Gordon Webster depicts Christ s baptism by St John and also the four main saints that the main wards of Aberdeen are named after St Andrew St Clement St Nicholas and St Machar Looking around the walls you will see the Stations of the Cross made of glazed tiles These were by a Polish artist Adam Kossowski also from the 1960s On the left hand side of the main altar you will see the Lady Altar dedicated to Our Lady of Aberdeen A serving girl Miss Elsie Robertson and her sister donated this and the main altar Before the Reformation the original statue of Our Lady of Aberdeen was in a Carmelite Monastery in Aberdeen in the Green At the Reformation the friars had to flee so they hid the statue in the banks of the Dee said to be in the old Heron Dock the RGU quay today It was recovered later and taken to Brussels in Belgium where it remains to this day The present replica statue in St Peter s was a gift from the Sisters of the Sacred Heart at Queen s Cross The original pulpit with it s spiral staircase was situated on the wall immediately to the right of the sanctuary It was removed when the present pulpit donated by St Mary s Cathedral was installed The original altar rails were in line with the walls of the arch and the Lady Altar In 1963 the sanctuary was extended to create a more spacious area
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Location: Aberdeen Scotland uk
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