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St.Fittick's church, Nigg Bay, Aberdeen

Burial place of Gibbon of Aberdeen.

St.Fittick's churchyard, on St.Fittick's Road, just outside Torry, just outside Aberdeen.
This is a disused churchyard between the edge of a Torry housing estate and the sea at Nigg Bay (see map).

• References:
  • Grave inscriptions and burial register of St.Fittick's, pub 1990, [Aberdeen FHS] RR.

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • The Book of Saint Fittick (also here), Thomas White Ogilvie, 1901.

Location of St.Fittick's church, on S side of St.Fittick's Road.
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From Google Maps.

Street level view. Click to rotate to see sea.
From Google Maps.

St.Fittick's church, looking out to sea.
Photo 2008. See larger and full size.

St.Fittick's.
Photo 1998.
The Gibbon family graves are at the E (sea side) end of church, NE corner of the churchyard.
Note that the graves are more properly said to be in Torry, or Nigg Bay, than in Nigg itself, which is some distance to the South (see map).

St.Fittick's. See full size.
Photo 2004 by Pamela Adam. From here. See terms of use.

St.Fittick's. See full size.
Photo 2004 by Pamela Adam. From here. See terms of use.

Location of St.Fittick's. See full size.
Photo 2005 by Pamela Adam. From here. Used with permission.

St.Fittick's, Nigg Bay, from the sea side. Photo 1998.

Pan from land side to sea.
The noise is young people playing.
Video 2008.
From here. Hosted at my YouTube account.
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