Name: | Rowand Anderson & Paul |
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Born: | 1903 |
Died: | 1934 |
Bio Notes: | Arthur Forman Balfour Paul ('Baffy' to his friends and to his staff) was born in Edinburgh on 7 August 1875, the son of Sir James Balfour Paul, Lyon King of Arms. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy from 1885 to 1892 and was articled to Sir Robert Rowand Anderson from 1892 to 1896, remaining as a draughtsman until 1897 and studying at the School of Applied Art under Frank Worthington Simon and Stewart Henbest Capper. His travels in these early years included a short sketching tour in Belgium and Holland in 1895 and a three-month tour of England in 1897. In 1898 he obtained a place in John Belcher's office in London, staying there for a year and studying at the LCC School of Art before returning to Edinburgh to commence practice on his own account from home at 30 Heriot Row. Following the dissolution of the Anderson, Simon & Crawford partnership Sir Rowand Anderson invited him to return to his practice as partner in 1903. Paul joined the Edinburgh Architectural Association in the same year and it was on the recommendation of that association and of its President, James Bow Dunn, that he was admitted LRIBA in the mass intake of 20 July 1911.
The partnership was interrupted by the First World War. Paul was a keen territorial who had joined the London Scottish as a piper when with Belcher. He was commissioned as a major in the Royal Engineers and served with distinction in France, being awarded the MC and the Croix de Guerre with Gold Star. Anderson continued the practice, albeit in failing health, with some help from Alexander Lorne Campbell.
Paul resumed partnership in 1919 and became sole partner, Anderson having finally retired: Lorne Campbell was Anderson's executor and he, not Paul, as has been stated, designed the memorial cottage to Lady Anderson at Colinton. Crucially for the practice Paul retained the feuing of the Fettes Trust and Braid estates, providing a flow of business which saw it through a lean period. In 1931 Paul, whose office was managed by John McClure Anderson, offered William Kininmonth a post as one of the three assistant draughtsmen at £12 a month. Kininmonth declined unless his friend Basil Spence, then recently returned to Edinburgh from Lutyens's office, could come as well. The practice was at a low ebb and Paul suggested that that they might share the post at £12 a month. This arrangement was accepted in October as it enabled Kininmonth and Spence to form their own independent partnership. This had some success: it enabled Paul to make them both partners in 1934; although in a somewhat unique arrangement the practice of Kininmonth & Spence continued in parallel for medium sized commissions Paul did not want to take on. It also enabled them to take on as an assistant Alan Reiach, previously of Lorimer and Matthews' office. The name became Rowand Anderson Paul & Partners and remained so until 1946 when Spence left to set up his own practice, although Paul had died on 3 June 1938. He was then living at Peffermill House, Craigmillar. He was survived by his wife, Jane Prichard Montgomerie Fleming, and left moveable estate of £24,365 18s 10d. |
This was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details): |
| Date started | Building name | Town, district or village | Island | City or county | Country | Notes |
| 1877 | St Columba's Parish Church | Burntisland | | Fife | Scotland | Restoration |
| 1903 | Culross Abbey Church | Culross | | Fife | Scotland | Restoration |
| 1903 | Dunblane Cathedral Halls | Dunblane | | Perthshire | Scotland | |
| 1903 | Queen Victoria Memorial and triumphal arch at east end of The Mall | | | London | England | Unsuccessful competition entry |
| After 1903 | Edinburgh Royal Infirmary | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions |
| After 1903 | University of Edinburgh, Medical School and McEwan Hall | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reconstruction of Medical School |
| c. 1903 | University College, main block | | | Dundee | Scotland | Design for the new main block - not built |
| 1904 | Dunfermline Abbey | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Reseating, heating and ventilation |
| 1904 | Keir House | Dunblane | | Perthshire | Scotland | Garden house (building dated 1904) and sundial (dated 1906) |
| 1905 | Archers' Hall | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Work continued in partnership |
| 1905 | Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Old Surgical Hospital | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Remodelling for the University of Edinburgh |
| 1905 | Kincairn House | Dunblane | | Perthshire | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1905 | Old High School | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Remodelling for the University of Edinburgh |
| 1905 | University College, Engineering and Physics buildings | | | Dundee | Scotland | |
| 1906 | Cottage for the Rev Robert Weir | Colinton | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1906 | Music Hall and Assembly Rooms | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions |
| 1906 | Newtyle Parish Church, Earl of Wharncliffe Memorial | Newtyle | | Angus | Scotland | |
| 1907 | St Cuthbert's Parish Church, Alexander Ballantine memorial tablet | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1908 | Cameron Manse | Cameron | | Fife | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1908 | Surgeons' Hall | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reconstruction and additions, including West Museum (a.k.a. Barclay Museum, now Fellows' Hall) |
| 1909 | Dunblane Cathedral, Stirling of Keir Memorial | Dunblane | | Perthshire | Scotland | |
| 1910 | Dollar Academy, Science Laboratory | Dollar | | Clackmannanshire | Scotland | |
| 1910 | Govan Old Parish Church | Govan | | Glasgow | Scotland | Lengthening of chancel |
| 1910 | Greenhill Cottage | Bruntsfield | | Edinburgh | Scotland | New ward block added - A F B Paul responsible |
| 1910 | Sweetheart Abbey | | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Consolidation |
| 1911 | 4 Heriot Row | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1911 | Dunfermline Abbey | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Repairs to stonework |
| 1911 | Edinburgh Academy, dining hall block | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1911 | Edinburgh Academy, Main Hall | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Internal alterations - addition of columns in hall |
| 1911 | Fettes College, new sanatorium | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1912 | Keir House | Dunblane | | Perthshire | Scotland | Chapel (mosaics by Boris Anrep) |
| 1912 | St George's School for Girls | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1912 | St Michaels and All Angels Episcopal Church Hall | Helensburgh | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | New hall |
| 1913 | McNeil House, Kinellan Road | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1913 | University College, Engineering and Physics buildings | | | Dundee | Scotland | Harris Building (Engineering laboratory) |
| 1914 | Broomhill House | | | Inverness-shire | Scotland | |
| 1915 | 31 and 33 Westgate | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | Additions |
| 1915 | St Michaels and All Angels Episcopal Church | Helensburgh | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | Wooden porch - Balfour supervised installation |
| 1919 | SS Ascania, ship interior | | | | | |
| 1919 | SS Ausonia, ship interior | | | | | |
| 1919 | University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Chemistry Building | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| After 1919 | Grey House | Murrayfield | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Survey of and alterations to house; garage; garden buildings |
| 1920s | Northfield | Colinton | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations? (Plans including electrics, lighting and gas points.) |
| 1920 | War Memorial | Loanhead | | Midlothian | Scotland | |
| c. 1920 | Kilellan (or Killellan) Old Manse | Kirkton Farm (near) | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | Extensive restoration |
| c. 1920 | Ladies Caledonian Club, Charlotte Square | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| c. 1920 | Scottish Rugby Union War memorial | | | | Scotland | |
| 1923 | Culross Abbey Church | Culross | | Fife | Scotland | Alterations to pulpit - Paul responsible |
| 1923 | Rankine House | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1926 | 7 Charlotte Square | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1926 | Bowland House | Whitehill | | Midlothian | Scotland | Further extensions to east |
| 1926 | Cakemuir Castle | Crichton | | Midlothian | Scotland | Modernisation |
| 1927 | Wester Finlarig and lodge | Dulnain Bridge | | Inverness-shire | Scotland | |
| 1928 | 22 Kinnear Road | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1928 | Fettes College, Kimmerghame House | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1929 | Murrayfield Parish Church | Murrayfield | | Edinburgh | Scotland | North transept and chancel completed to Crawford's design but with addition of organ chamber |
| 1929 | Saltoun Hall | | | East Lothian | Scotland | Alterations - new dining room |
| 1930 | St Margaret's | Gullane | | East Lothian | Scotland | Alterations and additions |
| 1930 | St Michaels and All Angels Episcopal Church | Helensburgh | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | Heightening of tower |
| 1931 | Eigg Lodge | | Eigg | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Rebuilding after fire |
| 1932 | Mayfield Free Church | Mayfield | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Pulpit |
| 1934 | Church of Scotland, Chalmers Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1934 | Deaconess Hospital | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reconstruction, addition of a floor to the original block, and Lord Sands Memorial Wing |
| 1934 | Dumfries House | Cumnock (near) | | Ayrshire | Scotland | Chapel dismantled and space in basement converted to library and on first floor into dining room |
| Before 1934(?) | Cowan House | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations - exact date unknown, may have been done under the name of Rowand Anderson Paul & Partners |
Currently, there are no references for this . The information has been derived from: the British Architectural Library / RIBA Directory of British Architects 1834-1914; Post Office Directories; and/or any sources listed under this individual's works.