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Old Aberdeen manages to retain its charm as a village surrounded by the City. It developed around religion and education evident from the physical survival of St Machar’s Cathedral and King’s College.
It is tradition that St Machar founded Old Aberdeen’s first church during the 6th century overlooking the Don. By the medieval period both documentary and physical evidence exists of ecclesiastical activity. David I established a new Bishopric at Old Aberdeen in 1125/30. St Machar’s Cathedral dates from at least 1370 but probably replaced a building of around 1160. Canons resided in the Chanonry. William Elphinstone established a college dedicated to St Mary in the Nativity in 1495. It became known as King’s College. Old Aberdeen was established as a Burgh of Barony on 26 December 1489 by James IV and had a small market. |
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