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At the Reformation it was bestowed on Marischal College, and was thereafter known as the College Kirk. It was at first an oblong structure (Fig.

Fig. 1293.—Greyfriars' Church, Aberdeen. View from South-West.

1292)[1] with massive buttresses, but in 1768 the north projection was built, and the length of the church was reduced by 20 feet,[2] and probably

  1. We are indebted to A. Marshall Mackenzie, A.R.S.A., architect, Aberdeen, for the plan and measured drawings of this church.
  2. New History of Aberdeenshire, Vol. I. p. 157.