| The estate in Peterculter of Dalmaik
takes it's name from the old church at Drumoak. To find this old
building follow the signpost off the A93 to "Drumoak Kitchens".
Follow this road southward towards the river and you will see a sign to
"Drumoak Manse B&B".
This church site and burial ground has stood since around 1062. It is mentioned in a Papal Bull of 1157 as the church at "Dulmayok". The Rev John Glennie was minister here in the 1750's- 1760's before he took up a charge at Maryculter. The church fell out of use with the building of a new church in 1836. |
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The turning point for the Old Church was the building of the "new" turnpike road in 1798. The church, by the River Dee, which had served the community for so many centuries was now, simply, too inconvenient. A new church was needed nearer the centre of the parish and the present church of Drumoak was built a mile and a half north-west of the old church. As you drive out from Aberdeen, and pass through Drumoak, the building is on the right up on the hill. The new church opened for worship on 13 November 1836. The architect for the new building was the noted Aberdeen architect, Archibald Simpson. |
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