St Machar's Cathedral - the old cathedral, located in Aberdeen, Scotland. Technically, a "high church" and not the cathedral since the time of the Scottish Reformation, as there is no episcopal.

St Machar was a companion of St. Columba on the way to the island of Iona. According to legend, it was imperative Mahar over a church in the place where the river bends like pommel crozier. That's how Don river flows just below the spot where now stands the cathedral. St Machar founded a church in Old Aberdeen about 580 year, and in 113, when King David I moved the episcopal chair of Mortlaha in Aberdeen, on the site of the church began construction of the Cathedral in Norman style. From the cathedral almost nothing. At the end of the XIII century it was decided to rebuild and expand the church, but this plan was foiled Scottish War of Independence. We managed to build the colony of red sandstone, and the remains of the columns can be seen in the eastern part of the building. Capitals of the columns represent some of the best examples of stone carving of the time.

At the beginning of the XIV century Norman Cathedral was destroyed and in its place has begun construction of a new, with granite columns and towers in the western part. After the completion of the nave and the western façade began construction of the central tower, which collapsed in 1688 in a violent storm. Of particular interest is the ceiling of the nave, made in the first half of the XVI century. On the carved wooden panels depict the coats of arms of all the kings of Europe and the Scottish earls and bishops.

The cathedral is a fine example of a fortified church with two identical towers, which are designed on the model of medieval castles, tower-houses. In the cathedral are buried many famous people.