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Basic Biographical Details
| Name: | Thomas Ross |
| Designation: | Architect |
| Born: | 10 November 1839 |
| Died: | 4 December 1930 |
| Bio Notes: | Thomas Ross was born at Wardheads, Errol on 10 November 1839, the son of Thomas Ross, a tenant farmer, and throughout his long life had the manners and appearance of one: 'a fine simple old-time Scottish gentleman … he combined a sturdy and fearless independence of outlook with the utmost fairness of mind and unfailing courtesy towards those from whom he differed.' His mother was Ann Murray. Ross was educated at Errol Parish School and Kinnoul Academy before setting out for Glasgow where he was articled to Alexander Kirkland c.1855. When Kirkland closed his Glasgow practice or perhaps even earlier, Ross moved to the much busier office of Charles Wilson from which he won John Thomas Rochead's measured drawing prize with a set of Glasgow Cathedral. This prize appears to have financed a study tour in Yorkshire from which drawings of Fountains, Selby and Ripon survive. In his early Edinburgh years Ross's closest friend was Alexander Graham Bell of telephone fame, a distant relative, with whom he remained in touch until Bell's death in 1922. In 1862 he was engaged as an assistant by David MacGibbon (born 1831), and he was taken into partnership ten years later, enabling him to marry Mary MacLaren. MacGibbon had commenced practice in Edinburgh in 1856, at first at East Claremont Street in association with his father Charles MacGibbon who was a prominent Edinburgh builder and who had been Master of the Merchant Company in 1852-53. By April 1858 at the latest David MacGibbon had opened his own office at 89 George Street, where he was to provide a meeting room and library for the Architectural Institute of Scotland from 1861. Within his first four years of practice MacGibbon had replaced David Rhind as architect to the Edinburgh Merchant Company, which brought an extensive feuing business and a continuous programme of repair and improvement to the Company's schools; had become architect to the Grindlay Trust; and had succeeded Archibald Scott in 1861 as principal, though not exclusive architect to the National Bank of Scotland, pioneering a Burn-inspired Scots Baronial for branch bank houses. In the same year he received the commission for the Alhambra Theatre in Nicolson Street, Edinburgh followed by that for the Theatre Royal in Broughton Street in 1865. On 18 July 1865 MacGibbon married Jessie Vannan Rintoul, the daughter of a well-off Glasgow merchant Peter Rintoul of Bothwell Bank, probably a relative of the Rintouls of Kincardine-in-Menteith and Toronto, who had financed his father's and grandfather's building activities in the 1820s. Probably as part of the marriage settlement Charles MacGibbon made over to him the estate of Laggan at Ballantrae subject to a life rent which expired on his death in 1867; shortly thereafter the MacGibbons built a new house, initially known as Gurphur, on the estate. In Edinburgh they at first rented, and then in 1868 bought Edgehill, a plain house in extensive grounds at Dean, the margins of which MacGibbon subsequently developed as a stylish terrace of houses. These purchases were financed by Standard Life with a £20,000 bond on Laggan. The same bond enabled MacGibbon to begin building speculatively in the mid-1860s, at least in part to encourage the development of the Merchant Company's Merchiston estate. From 1869 onwards the patronage of the great Edinburgh contracting firm of W & D MacGregor, notably at Bruntsfield, made it less necessary for him to risk his own capital to keep the office staff continually occupied and he developed a significant specialisation in the booming market for hotels, sometimes lending his own borrowed money to finance his clients. By the mid-1870s a marked interest in contemporary French architecture was evident, the details of the MacGregors' Bruntsfield tenements and George Watson's College Hall reflecting the influence of Cesar Daly's folios, while Ashfield had elements of the stripped modern gothic of Viollet-le-Duc. From the mid-1870s MacGibbon & Ross speculated in property development, MacGibbon being one of the seven principal shareholders of the Leith Heritages Company for which he built much of Learmonth Terrace, such ventures having been made possible by the Companies Act of 1862. In this they paralleled on a smaller scale the activities of Peddie & Kinnear, their companies having the same managing secretary, the accountant A T Niven. To finance this company, the purchase of a new office at 92 George Street and that of 131 Princes Street which he reconstructed as a shop and offices, MacGibbon raised another £3,500 on Laggan, £3,750 on 92 George Street and £10,000 on Princes Street. But in 1878 the City of Glasgow Bank crashed and the bondholders began calling in their loans. More seriously although MacGibbon himself was not a shareholder his uncle John Stevenson MacGibbon had been, his sons James Ritchie MacGibbon and John MacGibbon inheriting £750 each. It was an unlimited company and on the first call for 500% both had to find £3,750. To finance these calls the MacGibbons' Cambrian Slate Quarries were sold, but when the final call came in at 2250%, or £16,875 each, it was more than they had. After initially trying to save his cousins from bankruptcy by further borrowing David MacGibbon sold Laggan in May 1881 and Ashfield in May 1882. The office at 92 George Street was bought by the trustees of Jessie's marriage contract, but the MacGibbons had to rent 17 Learmonth Terrace from the Leith Heritages Company, Jessie eventually buying number 23 in 1886. The George Street office was rented from 1890 when the practice moved to 65 Frederick Street, and was sold to the tenant of the shop in 1901. In 1880 MacGibbon was elected president of the Edinburgh Architectural Association and organised a major exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy (which had five times refused to accept him as an associate), to which he invited contributions from Richard Norman Shaw and John McKean Brydon. Earlier in the same year he had delivered presidential lectures on early Scottish art and architecture which were followed up by papers on Scottish Castles and Houses in May of 1883 and 1884. With these Ross helped: both partners had in fact been sketching in the course of their travels on business since the mid-1860s. These papers were well received and MacGibbon was encouraged to publish them. Out of these papers 'The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland' was born, gradually becoming a totally comprehensive survey of Scottish architecture prior to the Restoration. The progress of its five volumes was, however, set back by a personal tragedy in the MacGibbon family in July 1884. After Laggan was sold the MacGibbons holidayed at Kingussie, eventually taking a house at Tomdhu, Kincraig. While on holiday MacGibbon's twelve-year-old elder son William Peter was exploring sand-martins' nests in the banks of the River Spey with a manservant when an overhanging bank collapsed, burying him and his sister Rachel. William Peter did not survive; Rachel was dug out alive but her lungs were affected by sand and she was permanently deafened. Number 17 Learmonth Terrace was closed and the family moved to the Riviera to aid her recovery, leaving Ross in sole charge of the office for extended periods, during which he progressed the surveys for 'The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland' on his own as and when he could. Predictably MacGibbon put his time with his family on the Riviera to good use, sketching intensively from December 1884 to June 1885 with only short visits home, and again in the spring of 1886. The end result, 'The Architecture of the Riviera', was published in 1888, midway between volumes 1 and 2 of 'The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland'. Volumes 3, 4 and 5 followed in 1889-92 and 'The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland' in 1896-97. Although MacGibbon was a photographer, like Kinnear, for practical reasons all the illustrations were measured and drawn on the spot. Some of the visits were made while travelling on other business, but most were weekend work undertaken by train and bicycle, usually setting out on a Friday evening equipped with weekend bags, drawing boards and provisions brought to Waverley Station by their daughters; sometimes they travelled together, sometimes separately, depending on what had to be done. Midway through the survey for 'The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland', MacGibbon again turned his attention to the continent, determined to combine the sketches he had made forty years earlier with those his surviving son Alfred Lightly MacGibbon (who was known as Fred) made on their study tours of northern France in the summer of 1895 and in the late summer and autumn of 1896 and in Belgium in August 1897. But at sixty-six the strain of this hectic activity at home and abroad brought on a serious heart condition. Although trial proofs were made, the book never appeared, probably because photography had begun to replace drawing material in high-class book production. Prolonged absence abroad also resulted in his accounts with the Merchant Company being in arrears, and the accumulated fees additional to his salary came as a shock to the Company when finally presented. The problem arose at least in part from over-generous arrangements renegotiated by Walter Wood Robertson some years earlier and although MacGibbon agreed an abatement in May 1898 the reputation of the practice with the Company was irreparably damaged. In 1899 the Ayrshire and Galloway Archaeological Association published MacGibbon's last major writing, 'The Five Great Churches of Galloway', a by-product of 'The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland'; but when the University of St Andrews conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on him in April of that year he was too ill to attend. By March 1901 he was unable to attend the Merchant Company meetings and resigned as architect to the Company on the 21st. It was a personal appointment and did not pass to Ross although he too was a member of the Company. MacGibbon was thanked for his services but required to surrender all drawings relating to the Company and its trusts. He died on 20 February 1902. MacGibbon's interest in the practice passed to his son Fred. Born on 23 November 1874, he was educated privately, spending one year only at the Edinburgh Academy in 1890. He shared his father's antiquarian interests and the years 1891-93 were probably spent helping with his father's publications and learning to draw, his precocious studies of Iona being published in 'The Builder' in April 1893. It was not until 5 January 1894 that he was formally articled to his father's practice at the relatively late age of nineteen, probably because he had been helping with his father's books. In August 1894 he made a study tour of the principal cathedrals in England and he probably did most of the drawing on the study tours of France and Belgium in 1895-97, some of which he probably made on his own. By the time of the Belgian study tour he was in the office of Robert Rowand Anderson, his father's great friend and ally in his quarrels with the Royal Scottish Academy. He completed his articles with Anderson between 21 January 1896 and 27 February 1899. Throughout the period of his articles he studied under Professor Frank Worthington Simon at the School of Applied Art and at Heriot-Watt College, passing the qualifying exam on 16 November 1900, the year in which he made a study tour of Paris. He was admitted ARIBA on 18 February 1901, his proposers being his father's long-standing friend John Wornham Penfold from Burn's office, with whom he may have spent some time before returning to Edinburgh, and Thomas Blashill and John Slater, all of London. As a result of MacGibbon & Ross's books, commissions flowed in for restoration work but few reached actual buildings, the biggest single disappointment being the Office of Works' refusal to sanction the restoration of the nave of Holyrood Abbey for which funds had been left by the Earl of Leven & Melville. Ross's younger son, James MacLaren Ross, born in 1878 and articled to the practice at the same time as Fred in 1894, moved to the office of Ralph Selden Wornum in London for wider experience in 1899, but in the event he remained there because of the steep decline in business at home. In 1908 Ross was appointed a founder member of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland, and threw himself into its activities with enthusiasm, writing reports as if he were a salaried employee; and on 23 November 1910 the Commission appointed Fred MacGibbon, their architect, at a salary of £200 per annum for three quarters of his time, a measure of the degree to which the MacGibbon & Ross practice had declined. He was given the power to appoint at a salary of £150 a full-time draughtsman, George Patrick Houston Watson, whose association with the Commission was to last until his death in 1959. Fred's own association with the Commission was to be brief. In the summer of 1912 he became diabetic and in October 1914 he had to resign, Watson succeeding him on a full-time basis. He died at Tomdhu on 4 July 1915. Ross's last significant commission was the reconstruction of 3-11 Abbey Strand, where he restored the original roofline with a dormered attic in 1916. Thereafter he closed the office and undertook small jobs which interested him from his home in Saxe-Coburg Place. His main occupation continued to be Commission business and it was when studying Rossend Castle, Inverkeithing that he was arrested for sketching within a prohibited area in 1915 and fined five shillings at Cupar Sheriff Court in September. The University of Edinburgh conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1910 and in 1918 the Royal Scottish Academy made amends for its past treatment of MacGibbon by electing him Honorary Academician and Professor of Antiquities. Mary Ross died in July 1927. Ross himself died at the age of ninety-one on 4 December 1930. His moveable estate amounted to £7,639. His daughters Elizabeth Hume Ross and Johanna Caird Ross never married and retained 14 Saxe-Coburg Place until their deaths. Ross gave some of his drawings to the University of Aberdeen in his lifetime as a result of his interest in the work of Dr W Douglas Simpson. After his death his son James MacLaren Ross destroyed most of the practice papers but those relating to the books and to Commission business were given to the National Library. Fifty-three drawings relating to Edinburgh were given to Edinburgh Central Library. The drawings David and Fred MacGibbon had at home had entered the RIAS collection somewhat earlier in two tranches: some were given to Sir Rowand Anderson as a memento after David died in 1902 and the remainder were given by Rachel after her mother died on 25 July 1926 and the house at 23 Learmonth Terrace was sold and its contents dispersed. |
Private and Business Addresses
| The following private or business addresses are associated with this architect: | |||||
| Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | |
 | 89, George Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Business | 1862 | 1875(?) | |
| 92, George Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Business | 1875 | 1890 | |
| 65, Frederick Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Business | 1890 | ||
| 14, Saxe-Coburg Place, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private/business(?) | 1930 or 1931 | ||
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 | |
| Kirkland & Russell | c. 1855 | 1856 | Apprentice | |
| Alexander Kirkland | 1856 | 1861 | Apprentice | |
| Kirkland & Hamilton | 1861 | 1861 | Assistant(?) | |
| Charles Wilson | 1861 | 1862 | Assistant | |
| David MacGibbon | 1862 | 1872 | Assistant | |
| MacGibbon & Ross | 1872 | October 1914 | Partner | |
| Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) | 1908 | Founder member | ||
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 | |
| 1870 | 25-31 Eyre Place | Edinburgh | Scotland | As assistant to David MacGibbon, prior to partnership | ||
| 1870 | Bruntsfield Crescent | Edinburgh | Scotland | As assistant and then partner of David MacGibbon | ||
| 1872 | 90-110 Lothian Road | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1872 | Mansion in New Forest | Hampshire | England | |||
| 1872 | Morningside Free Church | Morningside | Edinburgh | Scotland | ||
| 1872 | National Bank of Scotland, Aberdeen Union Street Branch | Aberdeen | Scotland | Alterations | ||
| 1873 | 143-146 Princes Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | Original hotel - radical reconstruction of existing houses with 'compo' façade | ||
| 1873 | British Hotel and Hopetoun Rooms | Edinburgh | Scotland | New top floor added | ||
| 1873 | George Watson's College | Edinburgh | Scotland | Hall | ||
| 1873 | Hillwood | Corstorphine | Edinburgh | Scotland | ||
| 1873 | National Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh West End | Edinburgh | Scotland | Unspecified work | ||
| 1874 | Ashfield | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1875 | Layout of Orchardfield | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1875 | Peebles Parish Church | Peebles | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Proposed rebuilding (not carried out) | |
| 1875 | Tenement and shop, Grassmarket | Old Town | Edinburgh | Scotland | Partly with John Lessels | |
| 1876 | Airlie | Ayr | Ayrshire | Scotland | Perhaps (Buildings of Scotland) | |
| 1876 | Carleton Mains | Lendalfoot | Ayrshire | Scotland | Extension | |
| 1876 | George Watson's Ladies College | Edinburgh | Scotland | Original building | ||
| 1876 | Great Western Hotel | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1876 | Maitland Hotel | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1876 | Ravelston Terrace and Ravelston Place | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1876 | West Church | Fraserburgh | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | ||
| c. 1876 | Old Racecourse Hotel | Ayr | Ayrshire | Scotland | Attribution by Close | |
| 1877 | 1-20 Learmonth Terrace | Edinburgh | Scotland | In consultation with John Chesser, who specified design of façade | ||
| 1877 | Dean Park Crescent | Dean | Edinburgh | Scotland | Unexecuted scheme | |
| 1877 | Granville Terrace | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1877 | Houses, Upper Gilmore Place | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1877 | Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1877 | Villa for Mr Blackwood | Peebles | Peeblesshire | Scotland | ||
| 1878 | Kilravock Lodge | Grange | Edinburgh | Scotland | ||
| 1878 | Mayfield Free Church | Mayfield | Edinburgh | Scotland | Competition design - not successful | |
| 1878 | Redwood | Merchiston | Edinburgh | Scotland | Stables | |
| 1879 | 92 George Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reconstruction as their own office | ||
| 1879 | Caledonian Insurance Company | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reconstruction and enlargement of David Bryce building | ||
| 1879 | City of Glasgow Bank | Edinburgh | Scotland | Conversion of original northern part of building to Merchant Company Offices with hall at rear | ||
| 1879 | St Cuthbert's Parish Church Sunday School and hall | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1879 | St Oswald Lodge | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1879 | Villa, Polwarth Terrace | Edinburgh | Scotland | Design by Robert Murray, working as assistant | ||
| 1881 | 21-24 Learmonth Terrace | Edinburgh | Scotland | Adapted Chesser's designs | ||
| 1882 | George Watson's College | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions at both ends | ||
| 1882 | Redwood | Merchiston | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions to house | |
| 1883 | James Gillespie's School | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions | ||
| 1883 | Tenement, Eildon Street and Inverleith Row | Inverleith | Edinburgh | Scotland | ||
| 1884 | Richmond Hotel | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1885 | Gorebridge Free Church | Gorebridge | Midlothian | Scotland | Extensive alterations - incorporating old church into transept | |
| 1886 | St Cuthbert's Parish Council Offices | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1887 | 10-11 Thirlestane Lane Mews | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1887 | 129 Princes Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reconstruction | ||
| 1887 | 32 Shandwick Place | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1887 | Tenement, Danube Street and St Bernard's Crescent | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1887 | Tenement, Perth Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1888 | Library for Solicitors to the Supreme Courts of Scotland | Edinburgh | Scotland | Competition design (by invitation) - not successful | ||
| 1888 | Old Rectory and Tweedbrae | Peebles | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Reconstruction | |
| 1888 | Star Hotel | Edinburgh | Scotland | Attic additions | ||
| 1888 | Three tenement blocks, Royal Crescent | Edinburgh | Scotland | Modified Thomas Brown's original design | ||
| 1889 | Market Cross, Carberry House | Leven | Fife | Scotland | Acted as consultant with A & A C Dewar | |
| 1889 | St Giles Cathedral | Edinburgh | Scotland | Memorial chapel to Dr Chambers | ||
| 1889 | St Giles Cathedral | Edinburgh | Scotland | Tracery in window of St John's Chapel | ||
| 1889 | Tenement and shops, Morningside Road and Newbattle Terrace | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1890 | Edinburgh Academy, laboratories | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1890 | George Watson's Ladies College | Edinburgh | Scotland | Absorbed into larger building | ||
| c. 1890 | Prestonfield House | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations | ||
| 1891 | Inch House | Liberton | Edinburgh | Scotland | Restoration and addition | |
| 1891 | James Gillespie's School | Edinburgh | Scotland | New top floor | ||
| 1891 | St Giles Cathedral | Edinburgh | Scotland | Ladies' vestry in choir | ||
| 1892 | Edinburgh Academy, Western Classrooms | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1892 | George Watson's College | Edinburgh | Scotland | Further additions | ||
| 1892 | Tenement for the North British Railway Company | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1893 | Falconhall, wooden sports pavilion for George Watson's College | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1893 | Lothian Road UP Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations | ||
| 1893 | Lothian Road UP Church Hall | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| c. 1893 | Villa, 42 Polwarth Terrace | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| c. 1893 | Villa, 50-52 Polwarth Terrace | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1894 | Daniel Stewart's Hospital | Edinburgh | Scotland | Roofing in of forecourt | ||
| 1894 | Edinburgh Ladies College | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1895 | The Whitehouse | Cramond | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations | |
| 1896 | Crosbie Castle | West Kilbride | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1896 | Kirkconnel Parish Church | Kirkconnel | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Reconstruction | |
| 1897 | Houses, 75-77 Colinton Road | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1898 | Bangour Village Asylum | Uphall | West Lothian | Scotland | Competition design for asylum - not successful, though was awarded a premium | |
| 1898 | Merchiston Gardens | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1898 | Moffat Parish Church and hall | Moffat | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Church hall (built by Starforth) extended | |
| 1899 | Haggs Castle | Glasgow | Scotland | Made schemes for additions but not executed | ||
| 1900 | 15, 16 & 17 Spylaw Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1900 | Beauly Priory | Beauly | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Restoration | |
| 1900 | Forgandenny Parish Church | Forgandenny | Perthshire | Scotland | Proposed restoration - not executed (Paid off £72) | |
| 1900 | Prestonfield Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1900 | Spylaw Street cottages | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reconstruction | ||
| 1900 | Trustee Savings Bank | Stockbridge | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reconstruction | |
| c. 1900 | Venlaw | Peebles | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Addition of large tower house to south | |
| 1901 | Cranley | Colinton | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reconstruction with new attic | |
| 1902 | Crianlarich United Free Church | Crianlarich | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1902 | Iona Abbey | Iona | Argyll | Scotland | Proposed restoration of choir, crossing & transepts - with John Honeyman | |
| 1902 | Kinross House and Home Farm | Kinross-shire | Scotland | Restoration of house and formal gardens, including fitting our of saloon. Stable court remodelled in late 17th century style from plain court of c.1780 | ||
| 1903 | Balavil House | Kingussie | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Restoration of house and formal gardens | |
| 1905 | Kirkwall Cathedral | Kirkwall | Mainland | Orkney | Scotland | Survey made prior to competition |
| c. 1905 | Kinross House and Home Farm | Kinross-shire | Scotland | Town gateway and lodges | ||
| 1906 | Holyrood Abbey | Edinburgh | Scotland | Proposed restoration of nave | ||
| 1907 | Restalrig Parish Church, King's Chapel and St Triduana's aisle | Restalrig | Edinburgh | Scotland | Restoration | |
| 1907 | Scott Monument | Edinburgh | Scotland | Design exhibited for unspecified work - possibly improvements to setting | ||
| Before 1907 | 7 Eglinton Crescent, billiard room | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1908 | Edinburgh Academy, laboratory lecture theatre | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1908 | Free Church Offices and Savings Bank | Edinburgh | Scotland | Repairs | ||
| 1908 | Lady Glenorchy's Church and halls | Edinburgh | Scotland | Halls and base of tower | ||
| 1909 | Melrose Parish Church | Melrose | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Competition design for reconstruction - not successful | |
| 1910 | City Churches, St Clement's Church and St Mary's Tower | Dundee | Scotland | Proposed restoration of St Mary's crown and refacing of St Clement's - job taken over by Macgregor Chalmers but not carried out | ||
| 1910 | Kailzie House | Traquair/Kirkburn | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Alterations | |
| 1911 | Carberry Tower | Inveresk, Musselburgh | Midlothian | Scotland | Partial rebuilding (and restoration of sundial) | |
| 1911 | Church of the Holy Rude | Stirling | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Restoration of nave; also pulpit incorporating earlier parts. Removal of Gillespie Graham/s plaster vault. | |
| 1911 | Duart Castle | Craignure (near) | Mull | Argyll | Scotland | Sketch scheme for restoration and reports. Also advised on Burnet scheme and it was this scheme which was executed |
| 1912 | Peffermill House | Edinburgh | Scotland | Restoration | ||
| 1916 | 3-11 Abbey Strand | Edinburgh | Scotland | Re-roofing | ||
References
Bibliographic References
| The following books contain references to this architect: | ||||||
| Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | |
| Walker, David | 1984 | The Architecture of MacGibbon & Ross: The Background to the Books | Breeze, David (ed.): 'Studies in Scottish Antiquity', Chapter 16, pp391-449 | ||
Periodical References
| The following periodicals contain references to this architect: | |||||
| Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | |
| Glasgow Herald | 5 December 1930 | Obituary | ||
| Scotsman | 5 December 1930 | Obituary | ||
Archive References
| The following archives hold material relating to this architect: | ||||
| Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | |
| Professor David M Walker personal archive | Professor David M Walker, notes and collection of archive material | Personal recolllections of Elizabeth Hume Ross, retold by the late Stewart H Cruden and the late Dr David Ross; of Mrs Theodore Durrant, daughter of Ross's elder son, Dr Thomas Arthur Ross; of the late Dr Thomas Alfred MacGibbon, Thetford, Norfolk, son of Alfred Lightly MacGibbon; and of David MacGibbon, Berlin, elder son of Alfred Lightly MacGibbon | |
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