John Paterson (died 1832) was a Scottish architect who trained with

Robert Adam Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (architect), William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and train ...

(1728–1792) whom he assisted with his work on Edinburgh University Old College and Seton House Castle.

Life

He was the second son of George Paterson (d. 1789) an Edinburgh architect and builder linked to Robert Mylne and living on St John Street in the

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in a building he had built with Francis Charteris,

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and thereafter shared. Its site is remembered in the building Charteris Land, a modern building which replaced it. The family also owned a small estate at Monimail in

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called Cunnochie. The estate passed to the oldest son (also George Paterson) on the death of the father. John lived on St John Street until 1784 and then moved to

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to work with Sir James Grant. He returned to Edinburgh in 1789 to oversee the building of Old College for

. His business connection to Adam ended in 1791, whereafter he opened an office at 2 North Bridge. In 1820 he apprenticed

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. The original concept for a road on the line of what is now Waterloo Place in

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was mooted by Paterson as early as 1790. Just before death he is listed as living at 24 Buccleuch Place in Edinburgh's south side, just south of George Square.

Principal works

Monzie Castle Monzie Castle is a castellated mansion, near Monzie in Perth and Kinross, Scotland that incorporates an L-plan castle, L-plan, early 17th-century building that was enlarged in 1797–1800. It is a category A listed building. The current house ...

, 1785–1790 *

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, 1792.Designs for Sundrum by John Paterson: Art Fund
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, 1794 *The Bridewell Prison, Duke Street,

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, 1795 *

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Parish Church, 1795 (incorporating older tower) *

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, 1798 *

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, c. 1801 *

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, 1800 * St Paul's Church,

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, 1807 *

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, 1801 *Canaan Lodge,

(as his own home), 1802 (demolished 1988 to build the Royal Blind School) * Harviestoun Castle near Dollar, 1804 for

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(demolished 1971) *

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Bank, Bernard Street, Leith, 1804 * Magdalen Asylum,

, 1805 (demolished) * Winton House, 1805 * Milbourne Hall, 1807 *Seafield Baths,

, 1810 * Stonehaven Sheriff Court, 1810 *

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Manse, 1816 *

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County Durham, 1818-21

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