St Margaret of Scotland, Aberdeen

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St Margaret's, Gallowgate

Dedication	St Margaret of Scotland
Denomination	Scottish Episcopal Church
Tradition	Anglo-Catholic
Administration
Diocese	Aberdeen & Orkney
Clergy
Rector	Rev Canon Dr A. Emsley Nimmo
Honorary priest	Rev David Wright
Other

St Margaret of Scotland — also known as St Margaret's, Gallowgate — is a Scottish Episcopal Church, in Aberdeen, Scotland.

[edit] History

The Gallowgate was one of the poorer areas of Aberdeen and in the mid-19th Century consisted of a large area of slums. St Margaret's was founded in 1867 as a mission church by Father John Comper, one of the first Scottish followers of the Oxford Movement. Comper was at the time rector of St John's, Aberdeen's oldest Anglican congregation. Comper felt that the poorer areas of Aberdeen were not being reached by the Church and felt obliged to respond, firstly with by founding St Margaret's Convent on the Spital and then the Gallowgate church.

The original church was a room rented by Comper on the Gallowgate. By 1870, a joint chapel-school had been consecrated and Comper had resigned from his post at St John's and become full-time priest to the newly formed St Margaret's. In 1879, a separate school was built followed by the St Nicholas chapel and rectory in 1898 and 1906 respectively, designed by Comper's son, J. Ninian Comper. A separate church hall was built in 1908.