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Scottish Baronial style; the Town and County Bank and the Aberdeen Bank. A New Town and County Hall has con con structed from the designs of Messrs. Peddie and Kinnear. It is a very large granite building, having a frontage of 200 feet in Union-street and 115 feet in Broad-street, wit a massive tower 190 feet high at the an le where the streets intersect. In cha reeter it resembles the (itch de ville of France and Belgium, but modified according to the Scottish Gothic t e. Of the new ecclesiastical buildin the most conspicuous, m its size and as an architectural o ject, is the Roman Catholic church and convent in Huntly-street, erected from the designs of Mr. Alex. Ellis, and consecrated in 1859. It is of granite, Second Pointed in style, has a nave, north and south aisles, and at the west end a tower and spire 170 feet high. On the north is the priest's house; on the south the convent. The episcopal church of St. Mary, Carden-place, by the same architect rs also an im portant pile. The s le is Second Pointed, of the Scottish type, with continental details. It consists of a nave 95 feet by 40, and a chancel 35 feet by 25, divided by a chancel arch 50 feet high, and is built of Peterhead °te, with freestone dressings, varied by the free use of Devons ire marbles, and much enriched with carving. The episcopal church of St. Paul is a handsome Gothic structure, Second ointed in style, and having accommo dation for 800, completed in 1867, at a cost of above 4000l, from the designs of Mr. Mackenzie, of Aberdeen. The Free Church Divimty Hall, in which are held the sittin of the Aberdeen Presbytery, is a neat Elizabethan edifice. T e Public Market is the largest building of the kind in Scotland; it is 316 feet long, 106 feet wide, and 45 feet high; is built of granite, and has an open timber roof.
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