Scottish architect (1776-1855)
James Gillespie Graham
(11 June 1776 ? 21 March 1855) was a Scottish
architect
, prominent in the early 19th century.
Life
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Graham was born in
Dunblane
on 11 June 1776. He was the son of Malcolm Gillespie, a solicitor. He was christened as James Gillespie.
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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.
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He is most notable for his work in the
Scottish baronial
style, as at
Ayton Castle
, and he also worked in the
Gothic Revival
style, in which he was heavily influenced by the work of
Augustus Pugin
. However, he also worked successfully in the
neoclassical
style as exemplified in his design of
Blythswood House
at Renfrew seven miles down the River Clyde from
Glasgow
.
Graham designed principally
country houses
and
churches
. He is also well known for his
interior design
, his most noted work in this respect being that at
Taymouth Castle
and
Hopetoun House
.
Some of his principal churches include
St Andrew's Cathedral
in Glasgow, and
St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral
and the Highland Tolbooth Church (now
The Hub
) in Edinburgh. His houses include
Cambusnethan House
in Lanarkshire.
He was responsible for laying out the
Moray Estate
of
Edinburgh's New Town
, and for the design of
Hamilton Square
and adjoining streets in the New Town of
Birkenhead
, England, for William Laird, brother-in-law of
William Harley
, major developer of the New Town upon
Blythswood Hill
in Glasgow. According to the writer
Frank Arneil Walker
he may have been responsible for the remodelling of
Johnstone Castle
, Renfrewshire.
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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.
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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
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In 1815 he married Margaret Ann Graham, daughter of a wealthy landowner, William Graham of Orchill (d.1825) in
Perthshire
.
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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.
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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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see
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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
Monimail
Church (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)
- Liberton
Parish Church (1815)
- Edmonstone Castle
near
Biggar
(1815)
- Enlargement of
Glenbarr Abbey
(1815)
- Torrisdale Castle
(1815)
- Glenfinnan Monument
(1815)
- Cambusnethan Priory
(1816)
- Inverary
Courthouse (1816)
- St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow
(1816)
- High Kirk
,
Dunoon
(1816)
- Keith
Parish 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
)
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- 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
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Media related to
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at Wikimedia Commons
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