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Queen's Cross, ABERDEEN, AB15 4YB

Business premises on the site of the former Campbell & Sellars garage and taxi business.

Queen's Cross, Aberdeen.

Built ca. 1875 and now the office of a software company. B-listed: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-20456-2-queen-s-cross-and-2-fountainhall-road-i . Note the ornate "brattishing" (the decorative ironwork on the roof).

Rubislaw Parish Church viewed from across the Queen's Cross Roundabout.

The east elevation of Image] has an interesting feature, which is that the small round windows above the lancet windows in the four small gables are all different. From left to right, they are respectively trefoil, quatrefoil, cinquefoil and multifoil - or to put it another way they have, from left to right, three, four, five and six lobes.

This major junction in the West End of Aberdeen has five converging roads. The red and white cars are on Carden Place and Albyn Place, respectively. The sandstone Rubislaw Parish Kirk dominates the background.

Built ca. 1875 in sandstone (because, apparently, granite was too expensive) and B-listed: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-19947-queen-s-cross-at-fountainhall-road-and-qu . Note how the massive set-back buttresses (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttress ) on the tower each end in their own pinnacles. Note from Historic Scotland: Rubislaw Parish Church is particularly unusual in that it is constructed of sandstone not granite, like the majority of churches in Aberdeen. George Washington Wilson was supposedly willing to cover the cost of the granite, but his offer came too late, as the contract had already been let. The church was built as part of the extension scheme, carried out by the Church of Scotland from the 1870's. Its aim was to aid the development and progress of the Established Church, which had suffered badly in Aberdeen at the time of the Disruption. At this time three new parishes were established: Rosemount, Ferryhill and Queen's Cross (which Rubislaw Church serves). The tower and spire, galleries and church hall were added to Rubislaw Church in 1881, to help accommodate the rapidly expanding congregation. Lyall suggests that the spire was built to compete with Queen's Cross (Free) Church opposite, designed by J B Pirie, 1870-1881.

NW corner off B9119 roundabout.

Designed by J Marshall Mackenzie and built in 1874-1875, this is a Category B Listed Building. See https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB19947 for a detailed description. The notice to the right of the gate reveals that this, like so many of the rather excessive number of churches in Scotland, is for sale and therefore presumably no longer in ecclesiastical use.