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Hillhead Student Village

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Hillhead Student Village (formerly Hillhead Halls of Residence) is a group of buildings that provide accommodation for students at the University of Aberdeen.

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Hillhead Student Village
Nether Don, Aberdeen City Old Aberdeen

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Hillhead Student Village

Nether Don
AB24 1XP Aberdeen City, Old Aberdeen
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Mitchell's Hospital Old Aberdeen
Mitchell's Hospital Old Aberdeen

Mitchell's Hospital, Old Aberdeen, in Old Aberdeen, Scotland, was founded by the philanthropist David Mitchell in 1801 as follows: " .. from a regard for the inhabitants of the city of Old Aberdeen and its ancient college and a desire in these severe times to provide lodging, maintenance and clothing for a few aged relicks and maiden daughters of decayed gentlemen merchants or trade burgesses of the said city.. ". See the text of the 1801 Mortification or the conditions of the endowment. The Hospital is owned and managed by the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen City Council and the Cathedral Church of St Machar in Old Aberdeen. The origins of the Hospital are due to various attempts by the Incorporated Trades and Merchants in Old Aberdeen to provide a "care home" for their elderly and infirm members and their "relicks".From 1801 until the beginning of the twentieth century, the hospital served as a refuge for "relicks" of Old Aberdeen Trade Burgesses. Mitchell's mortification laid down very specific conditions for eligibility. One of which gave preference in selecting residents to those who had the name "Mitchell". Originally, the residents lived a communal life with a strict system of management and care. A Board of Management carried out Mitchell's wishes to the letter. The operation of the hospital has been modified twice in the twentieth century to provide self-contained flats for elderly ladies. However, the original mortification by Mitchell determines its overall operation - within twenty-first century financial constraints.

Diocese of Aberdeen

The origin of the Diocese of Aberdeen is unclear although Hector Boece, a 16th century scholar, used unconvincing early charters to develop a history of the diocese. He described how a succession of 11th century bishops—Bean, Denortius and Cormac—were the first bishops of Mortlach. Boece then allowed a fourth Mortlach bishop, Nectan, to translate the see to Aberdeen in the first quarter of the 12th century. That the first bishop of Aberdeen was Nectan is conclusive but his emergence as described by Boece is dubious. Nectan’s appearance as a note in the Book of Deer is undisputed and places him to c. 1132. The diocese was formed in the early part of the 12th century during changes in ecclesiastical authority. The papal bull of 1157 to Bishop Edward is the first direct documentary evidence of a bishop at Aberdeen. It referred to his cathedral and its proposed chapter and marked the beginning of the expansion of the diocesan organisation. The national development of the parochial system accelerated under David I (1124-1153) although he can't be credited with its concept which had pre-existed in Scotland, as elsewhere, since the earlier middle ages. David formalalised the rights of the parish church, both territorially and legally. His reforms ensured that parishioners could sustain their priests by the provision of teinds. Church building and the supply of priests lay with local lords, just as they had always done, and who continued to exert their rights of patronage. To see themselves safely into the afterlife, the cadre of landowners granted the patronage of most of the churches either to the cathedral or to a monastery of choice. This now provided the opportunity for the substantial appropriation of the fruits of the parish churches to the major religious institutions. Consequently, the parish churches became impoverished both in terms of their sustenance and the quality of the priesthood. In most cases, cathedral annexations were of both the parsonages and the vicarages leaving a pensioned vicar, often uneducated, to provide for the cure of souls. The annexed churches formed prebends for the chapter and dignitaries of the cathedral. The prebendary then assumed the responsibility of adequate vicarage provision. Over time, the chapter increased its numbers requiring further parish church annexations. Reconstruction of the cathedral began in the late 14th century and continued up to the 16th century.