James Gillespie Graham
James Gillespie Graham (11 June 1776 – 21 March 1855) was a Scottish architect, prominent in the early 19th century.
Life
Graham was born in Dunblane on 11 June 1776. He was the son of Malcolm Gillespie, a solicitor. He was christened as James Gillespie.[1]
In 1810, under the name James Gillespie, he was living in a flat at 10 Union Street at the head of Leith Walk in Edinburgh. By 1820 he had moved to a far more luxurious house at 34 Albany Street, not far from his earlier flat.[2]
He is most notable for his work in the
Graham designed principally
Some of his principal churches include
He was responsible for laying out the
He designed and built a house at 34 Albany Street in Edinburgh's New Town for himself and his wife and lived there from 1817 to 1833.[4]
He died in Edinburgh on 21 March 1855 after a four-year illness.
He is buried in the sealed south-west section of Greyfriars Kirkyard generally called the Covenanter's Prison together with his wife and other family members.
Family
In 1815 he married Margaret Ann Graham, daughter of a wealthy landowner, William Graham of Orchill (d.1825) in Perthshire.[1] Together they had two daughters. In 1825, on the death of his wife's father, the couple inherited his large country estate, and James thereafter became known as James Gillespie Graham.[1]
His wife died in 1826, and he married again, to Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Major John Campbell of the 76th Regiment of Foot.
Principal works
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- Snizort Parish Church and manse (1800/1802)
- Achnacarry House, Inverness-shire (1800) (completed by William Burn)
- Alterations in the Gothic style, Lanrick Castle (1803)
- New Kilpatrick Parish Church, Bearsden (1807)
- A grand crescent of townhouses, Warriston Crescent, Edinburgh (1807, resumed 1817)
- Arisaig Church (1809)
- Cupar County Buildings (1810)
- Drumtochty Castle (1810)
- Falkirk Parish Church (1810)
- Culdees Castle, Muthill (1810)
- Sleat Manse, Skye(1810)
- Fife County Prison, Cupar (1811)
- Crawford Priory (1811)
- Steeple of MonimailChurch (1811)
- Enlargement of Cameron House, Loch Lomond (1812)
- Candleford House (1812)
- Completion of Eredine House (1812)
- Monument to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Comrie (1812)
- Auchtertool Parish Church (1812)
- Bowland House, Stow of Wedale (1813)
- Clackmannan Parish Church (1815)
- Gray's Hospital, Elgin (1815)
- LibertonParish Church (1815)
- Edmonstone Castle near Biggar (1815)
- Enlargement of Glenbarr Abbey(1815)
- Torrisdale Castle (1815)
- Glenfinnan Monument (1815)
- Cambusnethan Priory(1816)
- InveraryCourthouse (1816)
- St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow (1816)
- High Kirk, Dunoon (1816)
- KeithParish Church (1816)
- The Market House, Duns (1816)
- Channelkirk Church (1816)
- Remodelling of Dunblane Cathedral (1817)
- St Mungo's Parish Church, Alloa (1817)
- Blythswood House, Renfrew, (1818) demolished, for the owners of the Lands of Blythswood, Glasgow
- Drimsynie House, Lochgoilhead (1818) for the Campbells of Blythswood
- Restoration of the Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling (1818)
- Dunbar Parish Church (1818)
- Remodelling of Duns Castle (1818)
- Logie Easter Parish Church (1818)
- George Street Independent Church, Glasgow (1819)
- Nicolson Street Church, Edinburgh(1819) interior and roof lost to a fire in 1930s
- Mar and Kellie mausoleum Alloa (1819)
- Layout of Blythswood Square in Glasgow (1820) for William Harley
- Manse at Kinloss (1820)
- Lee Castle, Carnwath (1820)
- Mountquhanie, Kilmany, Fife (1820)
- Kirkwall School (1820)
- Enlargement of Allanton Castle, Cambusnethan (1820)
- Kilmaron Castle (1820)
- Terrace of large townhouses, 1-11 Albyn Place, Edinburgh (1822)
- Terrace of large townhouses, 1-11 St Colme Street, Edinburgh (1822)
- Huge crescent of terraced houses, 1-36 Moray Place, Edinburgh (1822)
- Crescent of houses and flats, 1-8 Randolph Crescent (1822)
- Kersfield, Berwickshire (1822)
- Kilmadock Parish Church, Doune (1822)
- Mausoleum, Springwood Park, Kelso (1822)
- Dormont near Dalton, Dumfriesshire (1823)
- Dunninald Castle (1823)
- Terraces houses, Alva Street, Edinburgh (1823)
- Hamilton Square, Birkenhead for the Laird family from Greenock (1824)
- Leith Tolbooth, Tolbooth Wynd, Edinburgh (1824) demolished to build Council housing
- St John's Kirk, Perth (1825; reduction of north transept)[5]
- Layout of Blacket Place, Edinburgh (1825)
- Enlargement of Wishaw House (1825)
- Layout of Melville Street and Walker Street, Edinburgh (1825)
- Rafford Parish Church (1825)
- Dunino Parish Church (1826)
- Enlargement of Inverkeithing Parish Church (1826)
- Morham Manse, Haddington (1826)
- Muthill Church (1826)
- Commercial Bank, Inverness (1827)
- Quality Street, Mutton Hole, now called Davidsons Mains, Edinburgh(1827)
- Manse, Douglas, Lanarkshire(1828)
- Murthly House near Dunkeld (1829)
- 18 to 20 Queensferry Street, Edinburgh (1830)
- Ardhmor House, Dalgety Bay (1830)
- Dalgety Kirk, Dalgety Bay (1830)
- Spire on Haddington Town House, Haddington (1830)
- Errol Parish Church (1830)
- Steeple on Montrose Old Church (1831)
- Chapel at St Margarets Convent, Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh (1834)
- Bolfracks near Aberfeldy(1835)
- Commercial Bank, Aberdeen (1836)
- Greenside Parish Church, Edinburgh (1836)
- Ardmaddy Castle (designed 1837, executed after death)
- Chapel interior, George Heriot's School (1837)
- Remodelling of Taymouth Castle (1838)
- Remodelling of Kinglassie Parish Church (1839)
- Tolbooth Church, Castlehill, Edinburgh (1839) now known as The Hub
- Remodelling of Brodick Castle (1844)
- Episcopal Chapel, Gask (1845)
- Ayton Castle (1846)
- Wester Bogie House, Abbotshall, Fife (1850)
See also
Media related to James Gillespie Graham at Wikimedia Commons
References
- ^ a b c d Goold, David. "James Gillespie Graham". www.scottisharchitects.org.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1810/1820
- ^ Walker, Frank Arneil (1986) The South Clyde Estuary, RIAS
- ^ "Number 34 - Information on residents". Albany Street Edinburgh in the 19th century. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ^ Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland, Francis Hindes Groome (1901)
External sources
- The Glasgow Story retrieved 8 October 2007.
- James Gillespie Graham retrieved 8 October 2007.