Walking In the steps of St Magnus

Walking In the
steps of St
Magnus
In aid of the
Comper Windows in the St
Nicholas Chapel at
St Margaret’s
Following on the tremendous success
of last year’s venture in the steps of
St Moluag, Dean Emsley, Steven Boon
and Professor Allan Macinnes of St
Margaret’s congregation are again
setting out on the road, this time
partly in the steps of St Magnus! They
intend to walk and sail down through
the United Diocese of Aberdeen and
Orkney beginning at Scaw in Unst
in Shetland on Monday the 4th of
May arriving back in Aberdeen for
Saturday the 16thof May 2015. We
will be in the Northern Isles until
Sunday the 10th of May and restarting the walk at Fraserburgh on
the late morning of Tuesday12th
of May. Anyone is invited to join
us. Please follow progress on the
Diocesan Website.
This time the pilgrimage is an effort
to raise necessary monies for repairs
to the St Nicholas Chapel windows
in St Margaret’s Gallowgate. The
Chapel and its stained glass are the
work of Sir Ninian Comper, the 150th
anniversary of whose birth fell almost
a year ago on 10th of June 2014.
Ninian was the son of Fr John Comper
who had been Rector of St John’s
Crown Terrace and who had founded
St Margaret’s Gallowgate in 1867.
The extension to St Margaret’s in
1890 with the St Nicholas Chapel
was the first piece of work the young
Comper designed. He had been
commissioned to do this by his father.
It was from that that Ninian went on
to become the celebrated church
architect that made him universally
acclaimed. The St Nicholas Chapel
contains the earliest piece of stained
glass by NinianComper and as such
is important in the history of the Arts
and Crafts Movement in Scotland.
The chapel itself is the first piece of
stone-vaulting erected in Aberdeen
since the Reformation.
Any donations towards this venture
will be most gratefully received.
Ninian Comper’s work in the Diocese
is extant in St Magnus Lerwick, St
Andrew’s Cathedral, St Margaret’s
Gallowgate, St John’s Crown Terrace,
St Mary’s Inverurie, St Drostan’s Old
Deer and All Saints’ Whiterashes. The
Convent in the Spital, St Margaret’s
Braemar, St Margaret’s Forgue and St
Clement’s in the Quay sadly no longer
operate for public worship.
The Dean’s Walk from Shetland to Aberdeen
(partly) in the footsteps of St Magnus!
In aid of The St Nicholas Chapel Comper Windows
at St Margaret’s
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