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Basic Biographical Details
| Name: | Reginald Francis Joseph Fairlie |
| Designation: | Architect |
| Born: | 7 March 1883 |
| Died: | 27 October 1952 |
| Bio Notes: | Reginald (Reggie) Francis Joseph Fairlie was born at Kincaple, Fife on 7 March 1883, the second son of James Ogilvy Reginald Fairlie and his wife Jane Mary Buchanan. The Fairlies were very old Ayrshire gentry, originally the Fairlies of that ilk until the Fairlie estate was sold to the Boyle Earls of Glasgow: James Ogilvy Reginald Fairlie was the third son of James Ogilvy Fairlie of Coodham and was Privy Chamberlain to Pope Leo XII 1878-1903, and from 1904 to Pius X. He was closely associated with the Third Marquess of Bute, and when Bute bought the Falkland estate in 1887 Fairlie acquired the Myres Castle section of it, matriculating his arms as Fairlie of Myres in 1893. This strong Roman Catholic-old gentry background was to be the bedrock of his son's practice. Reginald Fairlie was educated at the Oratory School in Birmingham because of its associations with Cardinal Newman (whom Leo had made a cardinal in 1879) and was as devout a Roman Catholic as his father. He was articled to Robert Stodart Lorimer in 1901 but his relationship with him was not a particularly happy one. Fairlie did not believe in classes or exams and Lorimer told him he 'would never make an architect because he was too lazy'. Fairlie in turn had reservations about Lorimer and some of his work, preferring that of John Kinross and the Roman Catholic architect Archibald Macpherson who was to become a close friend until his death in December 1927. Within Lorimer's office Fairlie got on best with James Smith Richardson, later principal inspector of ancient monuments who was similarly somewhat disaffected. After leaving Lorimer's office Fairlie spent some time in London and travelled in England, France and Italy before returning to Edinburgh to commence independent practice at 14 Randolph Place in 1908, immediately entering the Stirling Municipal Buildings competition. He was unplaced but it hardly mattered. Family connections and the quality of his draughtsmanship ensured the patronage of the 4th Marquess of Bute who financed the Roman Catholic churches at St Andrews and Troon, both late Scots Gothic: these were followed by the choir of the abbey church at Fort Augustus, Romanesque and built off the foundations laid by Peter Paul Pugin. On at least one occasion he made the journey from Myres to Fort Augustus on foot, sleeping outdoors en route; and during this early period of practice he made further walking tours of the churches of Devon and Dorset in 1911 and 1912. At that time he kept a falcon. Fairlie's first significant country house commissions came in 1913-14, a tactful addition to a composite Victorian shooting lodge at Inverailort and the reconstruction of Kilmany in a Cape Dutch idiom after the client had a disagreement with Lorimer. But in the latter year he was called up and commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in France. His elder brother John Ogilvy Fairlie was killed in action on 25 September 1915 and his father died on 28 September 1916, a year after becoming Chamberlain to Benedict XV. The deaths of his father and brother resulted in Fairlie becoming heir to the Myres estate. Fairlie resumed practice at Randolph Place after the war, joining forces with George Reid and J Smith Forbes - who also had Roman Catholic connections - to compete successfully for the Northfield Housing Estate in Edinburgh, the partnership taking the title of Fairlie, Reid & Forbes. This was followed by another housing estate in Moffat and a small one at Auchtermuchty which was not built. But after completing the Edinburgh and Moffat schemes, which were much above average, Fairlie gradually withdrew from 1926, leaving Reid & Forbes to continue in partnership on their own (Post Office directories show the firms running concurrently in this year). Fairlie's practice then settled into its former routine of church and country house work, which was of such quality that it brought him election as ARSA in 1923: and that in turn resulted in him being admitted FRIBA on 15 May 1928, proposed by the RIBA Council. He took rather more interest in professional matters after that, joining the Council of the Edinburgh Architectural Association and the Board of Edinburgh College of Art. In 1925 Fairlie and his partners moved to 7 Ainslie Place, which was to be Fairlie's house and office for the rest of his life, his partners Reid and Forbes eventually moving out in 1930. It has been said that Fairlie lived the life of a hermit but that overstates the reality of his semi-monastic existence. He never married, his household being managed by a quick-witted gentleman's gentleman, Robertson from Leith. Robertson cooked good simple food ('the bona temporalia'), scanned his newspapers and journals in which the items which might interest him were duly marked for his attention, and kept his books and clothes in order - Fairlie was always impeccably clad, even after sleeping outdoors. The private apartments were kept in a state of old-world Catholic gentility, his drawing room having a Sienese Madonna, a Flemish pietà, a tapestry and Chinese ceramics. The house served also as an Edinburgh base for his brother Gilbert Thomas Ogilvie Fairlie, who was priest at Birnam, and also lodged within no 7 were James Forbes Smith, formerly of John More Dick Peddie's practice, and from about 1931, the widow of the architect James Bow Dunn, although neither seems to have been part of Fairlie's inner circle of friends who tended to be entertained at this time. Although shy and somewhat diffident in public, and intolerant of any pretension, in private Fairlie was a brilliant raconteur with a profound knowledge of Scottish and Irish folklore and an amazing mastery of provincial dialects, his tales always being in good taste. Surprisingly he had no interest in music beyond that for the Roman Catholic liturgy, and much of it he positively disliked. Perhaps the closest of his friends was the painter Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell who shared his love of outdoor life and of Iona in particular. He had maintained a similar bachelor household with a gentleman's gentleman at no 6 since 1920. Later regular guests were the Roman Catholic writer George Scott-Moncrieff, Ian G Lindsay who became an apprentice with him in 1927 on his return from Cambridge, and the sculptor Hew Lorimer whose career he both helped and encouraged from the time of his father's death in 1929. The office itself never had many staff. Charles William Gray, who joined Fairlie's office in 1923, recalled that Fairlie 'never hustled or bustled. Very few people ever saw him work … as a master he never taught. He just breathed inspiration. Nothing seemed to be difficult to him. Churches were born during the night. As a draughtsman he was unique. The way he was able to create a chef d'oeuvre with the minimum of lines was uncanny. His freehand sketching in heraldic work and animals was amazing.' Although war service had left him in less robust health and the pressures of business compelled him to use trains more, Fairlie remained committed to walking rather than motoring and to sleeping outdoors. His profound interest in mediaeval, renaissance and late Stuart architecture brought membership and ultimately the chairmanship of the Ancient Monuments Board at which he and his friend Richardson sometimes found themselves at odds with Dr W Douglas Simpson - 'The embattled Prussian has defeated us again' (Simpson was half-German). Whenever possible he revisited the sites under discussion. Hew Lorimer described how when visiting a site Fairlie 'would descend on it in the earliest light of dawn after sleeping out on some neighbouring hillside, or else might have stopped short of his objective and watched nightfall enclosing it and the lights of the countryside going out.' Predictably these self-imposed hardships caused chest problems and left him with a persistent and severe cough which shortened his life. In July 1931 Fairlie's mother died. He allowed Myres to pass to his younger brother James Ogilvy Fairlie who had married Constance Lascelles in 1922. He and his sister Margaret Elspeth Mary Fairlie then rented Inchrye Abbey, a romantic Georgian Gothic house near Lindores, for the shooting. There Lindsay and the other members of his circle were frequent guests. In 1932 Fairlie was among the twelve architects nominated by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, then President of the RIBA, for consideration by the selection committee for the new government buildings on Calton Hill for the National Library. This was a three-stage process which began with the new offices in Whitehall. This went to Vincent Harris in preference to Arthur Davis and Thomas Tait by the casting vote of the First Commissioner of the Office of Works, Major William Ormsby-Gore, because Harris had won an earlier competition for them. At the Scottish meeting on 11 December when Sir D Y Cameron represented the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland and John Begg the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, the Calton Hill project went to Tait rather than Davis in deference to national feeling on the issue. The meeting was then joined by Lord Clyde for the National Library's interest. Ormsby-Gore proposed Davis because Fairlie had no experience of such projects but was firmly outvoted. Building was delayed as a new sheriff court had to be built before the old one could be demolished. The design stage was fraught with difficulties, the Cockburn Association proposing that Bryce's Sheriff Court façade be retained - a proposition Fairlie dismissed as impossible - and conflicting advice on style which ultimately led to a consultation with Sir George Washington Browne representing the Royal Fine Art Commission. A model was made of the final American-Scandinavian classical modern scheme, but it was not built as he designed it, the capitals of the pilasters and the doorpiece being drastically simplified after his death. In the 1920s and 1930s Fairlie became resigned to the qualities he sought becoming harder to achieve. Of the red brick round-arched style spawned by Westminster Cathedral for Catholic church buildings, he observed diffidently, if not wryly, that 'It seems to be what they want'; and as Scott-Moncrieff correctly observed, perhaps with the Marquess of Bute's 1920s enthusiasm for synthetic stone in mind, he was 'not always firm enough with clients but allowed them too easily to make him modify his better judgment'. In 1933 Fairlie was elected full academician and in 1937 St Andrews conferred on him the degree of LLD for his restoration of the interior of St Salvator's Chapel. Thereafter his staff referred to him as The Doctor. Appointment to the Royal Fine Art Commission and the Forestry Commission followed and in 1938 he made an extended tour of Norway and Sweden with Lindsay, partly with the National Library in mind and partly to see the work of the preservation bodies there: by that date he had generously allowed the commission for the restoration of the abbey buildings at Iona, originally planned in 1931-32, to pass to Lindsay who had left to set up practice on his own in 1931 and had become Burnett Orphoot's partner in 1933. There was, perhaps, a certain regret on both sides that a partnership was not possible because of the obligation Fairlie felt towards Gray and the practice's dependence on Roman Catholic business, Lindsay being a High Church episcopalian. At a personal level the mid- to late 1930s were not a happy time for Fairlie. Cadell ran out of patrons, and had to move from Ainslie Place and eventually downsize his household in Warriston Crescent; he died in serious poverty in 1937. Ian Lindsay's wife, the Hon Maysie Loch, recalled that although Fairlie was the kindest and gentlest of men, he somehow did not fully appreciate that his closest friend and his faithful manservant could no longer afford decent meals: characteristically she took over. In 1938 Robertson died suddenly, his place being taken by his sister Mrs Cameron; and in 1939 the outbreak of the Second World War resulted in the abandonment of his largest country house, Baro in East Lothian, and the loss of his lease of Inchrye. The building of the National Library was slow to resume after the war: only the steel frame had been erected when work stopped in 1939. During the Second World War he had no work other than the various boards on which he served, but he was well enough off to see it through. He was admitted FRSE in 1947 and it was a matter of some amusement to him that a man with so many letters after his name had never passed any examination. He was wont to observe that it was far easier to be given degrees rather than work like a slave for them. In 1948 Fairlie took into partnership his long-serving assistant Major Charles William Gray. The following year work commenced on the nave at Fort Augustus and in 1950 when work on the National Library and on Baro was about to be resumed he took into partnership Alexander Ritchie Conlon. Fairlie died in St Raphael's Nursing Home, Edinburgh on 27 October 1952, and was buried in the Eastern Cemetery, St Andrews where a stone carved by Hew Lorimer marks the Fairlie graves. He left the then substantial estate of £64,855 15s 9d. His practice was continued under the title of Reginald Fairlie & Partners. His sister Margaret commissioned Patrick Nuttgens to compile a memorial volume to him, but she died on 14 June 1958 without seeing it in print. |
Private and Business Addresses
| The following private or business addresses are associated with this architect: | |||||
| Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | |
 | 14, Randolph Place, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private/business | 1908 | 1922 | |
| 7, Ainslie Place, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private/business | 1922 | 1952 | |
Employment and Training
Employers
| The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this architect (click on an item to view details): | |||||
| Name | Date from | Date to | Position | Notes | |
| (Sir) Robert Stodart Lorimer | 1901 | 1906 | Apprentice | |
| Fairlie, Reid & Forbes | 1919 | c. 1926 | Partner | |
| Reginald Fairlie & Partners | 1948(?) | 1952 | Partner | |
Employees or Pupils
| The following individuals were employed or trained by this architect (click on an item to view details): | |||||
| Name | Date from | Date to | Position | Notes | |
| John Peter Dippie Grant | 1912 | 1914 | Assistant | |
| James Meldrum Mitchell | 1921 | 1924 | Apprentice | |
| Ian Gordon Lindsay | 1927 | 1930 | Apprentice | |
| Charles William Gray | 1928 | 1929 | Draughtsman | |
| D R Cooper | 1930(?) * | Cooper's address of 7 Ainslie Place indicates that he was in Fairlie's employment at this time | ||
| Stanley White Edgar | 1931 | 1932 | Junior Assistant | |
| Walter Schomberg Hepburne Scott | 1934 | 1935 | Assistant | |
| M Watson | Before 1934(?) | After 1936(?) | Assistant(?) | Possibly an assistant in Fairlie's office, but this is uncertain |
| Charles William Gray | 1936 | 1939 | Assistant | |
| John Innes | 1938 | 1938 | Assistant | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
RIBA
RIBA Proposers
| The following individuals proposed this architect for RIBA membership (click on an item to view details): | |||
| Name | Date proposed | Notes | |
| RIBA Council | 15 May 1928 | for Fellowship |
RIBA Proposals
| This architect proposed the following individuals for RIBA membership (click on an item to view details): | |||
| Name | Date proposed | Notes | |
| Gilbert Laurie Cadell | 8 January 1934 | for Associateship |
| Eric Hutton Crosbee | 10 January 1938 | for Associateship |
| Charles William Gray | Late 1931 | for Licentiateship |
| John Buchan Hall | 10 December 1946 | for Associateship |
| Leslie Howard Hill | 21 October 1935 | for Associateship |
| John Innes | 10 January 1938 | for Associateship |
| John Ross McKay | 5 December 1938 | for Fellowship |
| Walter Schomberg Hepburne Scott | 18 October 1937 | for Associateship |
| (Sir) Basil Urwin Spence | Mid 1933 | for Associateship |
| (Dr) Frederic ('Eric') Robert Stevenson | 10 January 1938 | for Associateship |
| Thomas Aikman Swan | 19 June 1939 | for Fellowship |
| Leslie Grahame Thomson (or Leslie Grahame-Thomson; later Leslie Grahame MacDougall) | 21 June 1937 | for Fellowship |
| Peter Rice Whiston | 10 January 1938 | for Associateship |
| Robert Woodcock | 2 December 1935 | for Associateship |
Buildings and Designs
| This architect 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 | |
| 6, 8 South Street | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | Restoration - date unknown | ||
| Ardrishaig RC Church | Ardrishaig | Argyll | Scotland | Date unknown | ||
| Balcarres, gate lodge | Colinsburgh | Fife | Scotland | Proposed gate lodge | ||
| Jedburgh Abbey, Marquis of Lothian Memorial | Jedburgh | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Date unknown | ||
| Our Lady and St Anne RC Church | Cadzow | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Alterations to sanctuary - date unknown | ||
| 1903 | Balcarres, Estate Office | Colinsburgh | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1908(?) | Charleton House | Colinsburgh | Fife | Scotland | Siting of road and forecourt gates | |
| 1908 | Newton House | Charleton | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1908 | Stirling Municipal Buildings | Stirling | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Unsuccessful competition design | |
| 1909 | RC Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Meddan | Troon | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1909 | RC Church of St James | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1911 | House of Falkland, Crichton-Stewart Memorial Chapel | Falkland | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1912 | Inverailort House | Inverness | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Additions and alterations | |
| 1913 | Memorial to Thomas R Buchanan, All Souls | Oxford | Oxfordshire | England | ||
| 1913 | St Benedict's Abbey | Fort Augustus | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Restoration, nave | |
| 1913 | St John's presbytery | Cumnock | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1913 | St Margaret's Dominican Convent | Hawick | Roxburghshire | Scotland | ||
| 1913 or 1951(?) | RC Church of St Joseph | Peebles | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions | |
| 1914 | Kilmany Cottage | Fife | Scotland | Existing house entirely recast | ||
| 1914 | Parish Church of St Athernase | Leuchars | Fife | Scotland | Restoration; proposal for rebuilding Milne's church on the medieval foundations not carried out. | |
| 1914 | RC Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Meddan | Troon | Ayrshire | Scotland | Passage and presbytery added | |
| 1914 | RC Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Meddan, Priest's House | Troon | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1914 | Stanley RC Church | Stanley | Perthshire? | Scotland | ||
| 1916 | Memorial to J Ogilvy Fairlie of Myres | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1918 | Hutton Parish Church and Churchyard | Hutton | Berwickshire | Scotland | Designed communion table and enclosure at east end (executed by Scott Morton & Co) | |
| 1919 | Holodyke House | Dounby (near) | Mainland | Orkney | Scotland | Rear wing |
| 1919 | Kinclaven Parish War Memorial Lych-Gate | Perthshire | Scotland | |||
| 1919 | Moffat War Memorial | Moffat | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | ||
| 1919 | Northfield Housing Estate | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1919 | Peebles War Memorial | Peebles | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Competition design - not successful | |
| 1920 | Auchtermuchty Housing Scheme | Auchtermuchty | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1920 | Auchtermuchty War Memorial | Auchtermuchty | Fife | Scotland | (Figure of soldier by Alexander Carrick) | |
| 1920 | Bendochy Parish War Memorial Lych-Gate | Perthshire | Scotland | |||
| 1920 | Blairgowrie War Memorial | Blairgowrie | Perthshire | Scotland | Statue by A Carrick. | |
| 1920 | Corrour | Inverness-shire | Scotland | |||
| 1920 | Crawford Priory | Fife | Scotland | Alterations and additions | ||
| 1920 | Monzievaird and Strowan War Memorial | Monzievaird and Strowan | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1920 | North Berwick War Memorial | North Berwick | East Lothian | Scotland | Attribution by Nuttgens uncertain: it appears that James Smith Richardson was probably responsible | |
| 1920 | RC Church of St Joseph, tombstone for Canon Lyle | Peebles | Peeblesshire | Scotland | ||
| 1920 | Tomperran | Comrie | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1921 | Housing Scheme, Moffat | Moffat | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | With Reid and Forbes | |
| 1921 | Lawside Convent and school | Dundee | Scotland | Chapel | ||
| 1921 | Memorial to Lt J C Aitken | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1921 | RC Church of Our Lady and St Bride | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1921 | RC Church of St Anne, Organ Case | Liverpool | England | |||
| 1921 | Sacred Heart RC Church War Memorial | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1921 | St Mary's RC Cathedral War Memorial | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1922 | Dean Parish Church War Memorial | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1922 | Methil Parish Church | Methil | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1922 | Parish Church of St Athernase | Leuchars | Fife | Scotland | Font | |
| 1922 | RC Church of St Joseph, Church and Priest's House | Kelty | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1922 | St Andrew's RC Church and Priest's House | Rothesay | Bute | Bute | Scotland | |
| 1922 | St Mary's RC Church | Dundee | Scotland | Hall | ||
| 1922 | St Serf's RC Church and Priest's House, Highvalleyfield | Culross | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1922 or 1934(?) | St Margaret's Dominican Convent | Hawick | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Home for Incurables, in grounds | |
| 1923 | RC Church of St Agatha | Methilhill | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1923 | RC Church, Tarbrax | Tarbrax | Lanarkshire | Scotland | ||
| 1923 | Royal and Ancient Golf Club War Memorial | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1923 | St Thomas RC Church | Addiewell | Midlothian | Scotland | ||
| 1924 | Carfin Basilica | Motherwell | Lanarkshire | Scotland | ||
| 1924 | Cross for Mrs Aitken, St Andrews | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1924 | Cuil-an-duin | Ballinluig | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1924 | Kilmany Cottage | Fife | Scotland | Major additions | ||
| 1924 | RC Church of St Margaret, Church hall | Loanhead | Midlothian | Scotland | ||
| 1924 | RC Church of the Holy Cross | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1924 | St Mary of Egypt Home, RC Chapel | Barrhead | Renfrewshire | Scotland | ||
| 1925 | Gleneagles, Chapel for General Sir Aylmer Haldane | Gleneagles | Perthshire | Scotland | Restoration | |
| 1926 | Hutton Castle | Duns (near) | Berwickshire | Scotland | Restoration, additions and alterations for William Burrell | |
| 1926 | Kippen Parish Church | Kippen | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Reconstruction, etc. | |
| 1926 | Memorial to Lady Pentland, Dean Cemetery | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1926 | St Adrian's Episcopal Church | Gullane | East Lothian | Scotland | ||
| 1926 | St Mary's RC Church | Dundee | Scotland | Additions and alterations to church | ||
| 1927 | Kaimend | North Berwick | East Lothian | Scotland | Alterations and additions | |
| 1927 | Queen Mary's House | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | Restoration as library for St Leonard's School (Nuttgens gives 1927 as date) | |
| 1927 | RC Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Priest's House | Cardonald | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1927 | RC Church of SS Peter and Paul and Priest's House | Dundee | Scotland | |||
| 1927 | St Columba's RC Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions to hall | ||
| 1927 | St Margaret's RC Church | Lochgilphead | Argyll | Scotland | ||
| 1927 | St Mary's RC Cathedral | Edinburgh | Scotland | High altar and baldachino | ||
| 1927 | St Patrick's RC Church, Presbytery and halls | Dundee | Scotland | St Patrick's War Memorial Hall | ||
| 1927 | Tombstone for J Scrymgeour-Wedderburn | Birkhill | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1928 | American Scottish War Memorial | Edinburgh | Scotland | With R Tait Mackenzie, sculptor | ||
| 1928 | Daljarrock House | Pinwherry | Ayrshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions | |
| 1928 | Floors Castle | Kelso | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Entrance gate and lodge | |
| 1928 | Greyfriars Churchyard, memorial to Major A Stirling of Keir | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1928 | St Patrick's RC Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | façade and forecourt | ||
| 1928 | Tombstone for Sir Stuart Coats | Blairgowrie | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1928 | University of St Andrews, Chapel of St Salvator | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | Restoration, refurnishing and new fittings, including stone screen supporting west gallery (organ loft), and mosaic-decorated communion table. Also restoration of Kennedy Monument; and Second War Memorial; and new vestry at north-east corner. | |
| 1929 | Balhousie | Largo | Fife | Scotland | Alterations and additions | |
| 1929 | Lour | Angus | Scotland | Additions and alterations: supervised by Ian G Lindsay | ||
| 1929 | Princess Margaret Rose Hospital (included clinical and nurses' training unit) | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1929 | RC Church of St Margaret | Roy Bridge | Inverness-shire | Scotland | ||
| 1929 | Silverburn | Leven | Fife | Scotland | Alterations and additions | |
| Before 1929 | Scottish American War Memorial | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1929 or 1939 | Cumberland Convent of the Poor Clares | Workington | Cumberland | England | ||
| 1930 | 42 Greenhill Gardens | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations, linking chapel to house | ||
| 1930 | Bank of Scotland Headquarters, The Mound | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations and additions | ||
| 1930 | Fairmilehead Children's Cripple Hospital | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1930 | Parish Church | Dundee | Scotland | |||
| 1930 | SS Peter and Paul Primary School | Dundee | Scotland | |||
| 1930 | St Leonard's School, St Nicholas House | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1931 | Iona Abbey | Iona | Argyll | Scotland | Proposals for reconstruction, restoration of cloister and the refectory | |
| 1931 | Kindeace House | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland | Further additions and alterations | ||
| 1931 | Masson Hall | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1931 | Our Lady Star of the Sea RC Church | North Berwick | East Lothian | Scotland | High altar | |
| 1931 | Royal Hospital for Sick Children | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations and additions to 8, 9 and 13 Rillbank Terrace | ||
| 1931 | Westgrange House | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations | ||
| 1932 | Prinknash Abbey | Gloucestershire | England | Perhaps a competition design: the work was carried out by H S Goodhart Rendel | ||
| 1932 | RC Church of St John, Priest's House | Perth | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1932 | St Columba RC Church | Birnam | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1932 | St Ninian's RC Church | Bowhill, Auchterderran | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1932 or 1935 | Fettes College, New Chapel | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1933 | Cortachy Castle | Kirriemuir | Angus | Scotland | ||
| 1933 | Craiglockhart Hydropathic Institution, Chapel | Craiglockhart | Edinburgh | Scotland | In association with J Chisholm Cameron (but not in formal partnership) | |
| 1933 | Gate to Dean's Court | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1933 | Kelso Abbey, Dukes of Roxburghe Memorial Cloister | Kelso | Roxburghshire | Scotland | ||
| 1933 | RC Church of St Francis and Franciscan Friary | Dundee | Scotland | Friary and hall and project for church | ||
| 1933 | RC Church of the Immaculate Conception | Fort William | Inverness-shire | Scotland | ||
| 1934 | Archbishop's Chapel | Edinburgh | Scotland | New porch | ||
| 1934 | Convent of the Poor Clares Collettines | Liberton | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions and alterations to domestic buildings | |
| 1934 | Dunblane Cathedral | Dunblane | Perthshire | Scotland | Also chapter and sacristy wainscotting & cupboards added 1934 and 1938. | |
| 1934 | RC Church of St Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes | Larbert | Stirlingshire | Scotland | ||
| 1934 | RC Church of St Theresa of Liseux, Franciscan Friary Church Hall | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1934 | St Michael's RC Church | Parkhead | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1935 | Ardencraig | Craigmore, Rothesay | Bute | Bute | Scotland | Alterations and additions |
| 1935 | Convent of the Good Shepherd | Colinton | Edinburgh | Scotland | Infirmary wing and cloister, altar in church | |
| 1935 | Fettes College | Comely Bank | Edinburgh | Scotland | Plans for proposed new chapel - not built | |
| 1935 | Notre Dame Convent and School, Clerkhill | Dumbarton | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | Convent chapel and new wing | |
| 1935 | Princess Margaret Rose Hosptial, Nurses' Home | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1935 | RC Church of St Matthew, presbytery | Rosewell | Midlothian | Scotland | Cloisters in forecourt | |
| 1935 | RC Church of St Patrick | Mallaig | Inverness-shire | Scotland | ||
| 1935 | RC Church of St Patrick | Kilsyth | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Hall (conversion of cinema) | |
| 1935 | RC Church of the Holy Family | Dunblane | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1935 | St Giles Cathedral | Edinburgh | Scotland | Elders' chairs | ||
| 1935 | Temple for Hon Mrs Merry, Belladrum | Beauly | Inverness-shire | Scotland | ||
| 1936 | Mount Vernon Cemetery | Edinburgh | Scotland | Entrance gates and shelter | ||
| 1936 | National Library of Scotland | Edinburgh | Scotland | Completed by A R Conlon | ||
| 1936 | RC Church of St Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes, priest's house | Larbert | Stirlingshire | Scotland | ||
| 1936 | Sacred Heart RC Church | Cowie | Stirlingshire | Scotland | ||
| 1936 | St James UF Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | Conversion as Hall of St Mary's RC Cathedral | ||
| 1936 | St Joseph RC Church | Bonnybridge | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions to church hall and priest's house | |
| 1936 | St Ninian's RC Presbytery | Bowhill, Auchterderran | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1936 | Tombstone of William Low, Blebo Burial Ground, Kemback Churchyard | Kemback | Fife | Scotland | ||
| c. 1936 | Houses in Brunton Street | Falkland | Fife | Scotland | Reconstruction | |
| c. 1936 | Houses in Cross Wynd | Falkland | Fife | Scotland | Reconstruction | |
| 1937 | 3 Arnothill | Falkirk | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Villa converted to monastic use (with tower and oratory added) | |
| 1937 | All Saints Episcopal Church Rectory | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1937 | Canon Hoban Memorial Hall | Broxburn | West Lothian | Scotland | ||
| 1937 | Dunblane Cathedral | Dunblane | Perthshire | Scotland | Additions, panelling, fittings and furniture of chapel. | |
| 1937 | Huntly Lodge | Inverness | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Alterations | |
| 1937 | Pittsburgh University, The Scottish Room | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | United States of America | ||
| 1937 | Proposed housing scheme | Auchtermuchty | Fife | Scotland | Design exhibited | |
| 1937 | RC Church of the Immaculate Conception, Church and Priest's House | Jedburgh | Roxburghshire | Scotland | ||
| 1937 | RC Church of the Sacred Heart and St Anthony | Armadale | West Lothian | Scotland | Alterations | |
| 1937 | SS John Cantius and Nicholas RC Church | Broxburn | West Lothian | Scotland | Altar | |
| 1937 | St Columba's RC Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | Priest's House | ||
| 1938 | 71 North Street | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | Railings and gate | |
| 1938 | Beaufort Castle | Beauly | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Rebuilding after fire with reductions, alterations and additions | |
| 1938 | Dunblane Cathedral | Dunblane | Perthshire | Scotland | Also chapter and sacristy wainscotting & cupboards added 1934 and 1938. | |
| 1938 | Hartrigge | Jedburgh | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Additions and alterations | |
| 1938 | House for Lady Walker | Mayfield | Edinburgh | Scotland | ||
| 1938 | RC Church of Our Lady and St Bean with presbytery and school | Marydale, Cannich | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Altar and reredos | |
| 1938 | RC Church of St Agatha | Methilhill | Fife | Scotland | Altar | |
| 1938 | RC Church of St John the Baptist | Corstorphine | Edinburgh | Scotland | Church hall | |
| 1938 | RC Church of St Joseph, Church Hall | Whitburn | West Lothian | Scotland | ||
| 1938 | The Cathedral of Learning, the University of Pittsburgh, The Scottish Nationality Room | Pittsburg | United States of America | |||
| 1938 | University of St Andrews, St Salvator's College, gate in wall opposite Swallowgate | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1939 | Aberlour House | Aberlour | Banffshire | Scotland | Alterations | |
| 1939 | Baro House | Gifford | East Lothian | Scotland | Begun | |
| 1939 | Kinrara House | Alvie | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Substantially recast | |
| 1939 | Melville House | Fife | Scotland | Repairs and modernisation of services | ||
| 1939 | RC Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea | Tayport | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1939 | RC Church of St Margaret Mary and presbytery | Granton | Edinburgh | Scotland | Church hall and priest's house | |
| 1939 | St Margaret's RC Memorial Church | Dunfermline | Fife | Scotland | Reredos added; also altar and sanctuary decoration | |
| 1939 | St Ninian's Burial Ground, chapel and Dawson mausoleum | Chapelford, Fochabers | Morayshire | Scotland | Mausoleum | |
| 1940 | RC Church of St Patrick | Kilsyth | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Priest's house | |
| 1947 | Corrour | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Unexecuted designs for new house after original one had been burnt down; not built because of building licensing at the time | ||
| 1947 | Kilgraston Convent Chapel | Bridge of Earn | Perthshire | Scotland | Unexecuted designs | |
| 1948 | University of St Andrews, Chapel of St Salvator | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | Second World War Memorial | |
| 1950 | Cowal Hydro Electric Scheme, Generating Station and Attendants Cottages | Cowal, Loch Striven | Argyll | Scotland | ||
| 1950 | Ewing Building, Dundee University College | Dundee | Scotland | Charles William Gray responsible for design | ||
| 1950 | RC Church of St Anthony | Polmont | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Additions | |
| 1951 | Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church | Glasgow | Scotland | Plans to be prepared for extensions, alterations and additions | ||
| 1951 | RC Church of St Joseph | Peebles | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions | |
| 1952 | Crailing House | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Alterations | ||
| 1952 | RC Church of St John Vianney | Gilmerton | Edinburgh | Scotland | ||
| 1952 | RC Church of St Mary and presbytery | Nairn | Nairnshire | Scotland | Altar canopy and reredos | |
| 1952 | St Anne's RC Church | Corpach | Inverness-shire | Scotland | ||
| Early 1900s | RC Church of St Cyril | Achlaurach, Glen Spean | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Attribution of restoration | |
| Early 1900s | RC Church of St Mary of the Assumption | Aberdeen | Scotland | Design for sanctuary | ||
References
Bibliographic References
| The following books contain references to this architect: | ||||||
| Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | |
| Glendinning, Miles | 1997 | Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75 | Tuckwell Press Ltd | p162 National Library of Scotland | |
| Laperriere, Charles Baile de (ed.) | 1991 | The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990 | For office addresses etc | ||
| Nuttgens, Patrick | 1959 | Reginald Fairlie 1883-1952: A Scottish Architect | Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd | ||
| Post Office Directories | |||||
Periodical References
| The following periodicals contain references to this architect: | |||||
| Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | |
| RIAS Quarterly | February 1953 | No 91 | Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) | Obituary |
| RIBA Journal | April 1953 | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | Obituary | |
Archive References
| The following archives hold material relating to this architect: | ||||
| Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | |
| National Library of Scotland | Reginald Fairlie MS Bound Photocopies 1933-55 | ||
| National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Reginald Fairlie Collection | Letters, photographs, drawings, certificates and medals, exhibition panels. Also papers relating to being articled to Lorimer (1899) MS 302/1-2; and employment with Charles Gilbert or Charles Oldrid Scott, 1906, MS 302/3-4 | |
| Professor David M Walker personal archive | Professor David M Walker, notes and collection of archive material | Personal information from Ian G Lindsay, Maysie Lindsay, Hew Lorimer and Ronald G Cant | |
| RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | F no2574 (box 8) | |
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