Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer,

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(4 November 1864 – 13 September 1929) was a prolific

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and furniture designer noted for his sensitive restorations of

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s and

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, for new work in

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and

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styles, and for promotion of the

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movement.

Early life

Lorimer was born in

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, the son of Hannah Stodart (1835–1916) and James Lorimer, who was Regius Professor of Public Law at

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from 1862 to 1890. In his youth, the family lived at 21 Hill Street, a Georgian house in Edinburgh's South Side, close to where his father worked at Old College. From 1877 to 1882, he was educated at

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, going on to study at University of Edinburgh from 1882 to 1885, however he left without completing his studies. He was part of a talented family, being the younger brother of

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John Henry Lorimer John Henry Lorimer (12 August 1856 – 4 November 1936) was a Scottish painter who worked on portraits and Genre works, genre scenes of everyday life. Life Lorimer was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Lorimer (jurist), James Lorimer, who ...

, and father to the

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Hew Lorimer Hew Martin Lorimer, OBE (22 May 1907 – 1 September 1993) was a Scottish sculptor. Early life He was born in Edinburgh, the second son of architect Sir Robert Lorimer. He was educated at Loretto School in Musselburgh, then at Magdalen Colle ...

. In 1878 the Lorimer family acquired the lease of

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and began its restoration for use as a holiday home. Lorimer began his architectural career in 1885 working for Sir Robert Rowand Anderson in Edinburgh, and in 1889 for

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in London. He returned to Edinburgh opening his own practice in 1891. His first major restoration commission was Earlshall Castle in Fife for Robert MacKenzie, a friend of his parents. He was influenced by Scottish domestic architecture of the 16th and 17th centuries and the

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of Kellie Castle where he had spent much of his childhood and adolescence. From his time in Bodley's office, Lorimer was influenced by the ideas of

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, and went on to become a committed exponent of the Arts and Crafts approach to architecture. He assembled a collaborative group of

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s and craftsmen who, collectively, often contributed to his various commissions and to the manufacture of furniture sent to the

exhibitions in

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. In 1896 he was elected to the

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. Lorimer designed a series of cottages in the Arts and Crafts style in the

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area of Edinburgh, the so-called "Colinton Cottages". Constructed using traditional methods and materials, each cottage included a garden layout and interior design, including furniture, in keeping with the Arts and Crafts concept. By 1900, eight cottages had been built and four others were under construction. As his reputation grew the scale of his commissions increased, including major alterations and additions to important houses in various styles, culminating in three entirely new

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s designed in his personal interpretation of Scots baronial style; at

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, Ayrshire (1903),

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, Argyll (1906), and Formakin House, Renfrewshire (1912). Of these, Ardkinglas, on

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, was the only one built as originally designed and, Lorimer having been given carte blanche, represents his masterpiece. His important restorations at this time include Lennoxlove House, Haddington (1912) and probably his most evocative; at Dunderave Castle, Argyllshire (1912) on the Ardkinglas estate. He could take a house of modest character and give it a strong personality, such as Pitkerro, Forfarshire (1902) or Briglands, Kinross (from 1903), particularly where he found the raw materials sympathetic, but he could also disregard existing architectural qualities in a way that modern conservation practice would question, if he felt the result justified its replacement, such as at Hill of Tarvit, Fife (1907) where he demolished a previous house probably by

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, or at Marchmont, Berwickshire (1914) where he re-configured an altered house by William Adam (from 1750), ignoring Adam's design. He was called in to a number of properties to carry out a range of improvements, such as minor alterations, design of interiors and furnishings, work to ancillary buildings, and garden designs and features. A good representative of this sort of work is Hunterston Castle in Ayrshire (1912).

Later life

The

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restricted the demand for large new houses and his attention shifted to smaller scale projects,

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, and restorations. He already had a reputation as one of Scotland's leading restoration architects following the restoration of Earlshall and Dunderave, and he went on to carry out significant alteration and restoration works at

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following a fire (1915), and at Balmanno Castle in Perthshire (1916), said to have been the only one of his commissions he would like to have lived in. Although much of his work, and reputation, was in the sphere of domestic architecture, Lorimer also carried out significant public works. Principal amongst these include his design for the new chapel for the

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, Edinburgh in 1911. He received a

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hood for his efforts and went on to gain the commission for the

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in 1919, subsequently opened by the

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in 1927. Following the completion of the memorial, Lorimer was in December 1927 appointed a Knight Commander of the

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(KBE). He designed the Doiran Memorial and the three great naval memorials to the missing:

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and

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, each of which is a

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. Lorimer was also responsible for St Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot, completed 1927, a large Army church dedicated to the soldiers of the Church of Scotland and kindred churches who lost their lives in World War One. In 1928, he returned to complete St Peter's Church in

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, which he had designed in 1905.Edinburgh, Morningside, 77 Falcon Avenue, St Peter's Roman Catholic Church And Presbytery House
from Canmore, retrieved 20 July 2017 One of his last works (completed posthumously) was Knightswood St Margaret's Parish Church, Glasgow, which was dedicated in 1932. Lorimer became President of the professional body in Scotland, the Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, and it was during his tenure in office that the body received its second

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, permitting use of the term 'Royal' in the title. Lorimer was a fellow of the North British Academy of Arts. Ironically Lorimer lived in a mid-19th century town-house designed by

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, 54 Melville Street in

, but Lorimer did heavily remodel the building when he bought it in 1903, adding small window panes, an extra attic storey, and central French doors on the frontage leading to a small balcony. He lived here for his last 26 years, though he died at 12 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh in 1929. He was cremated at the newly opened Warriston Crematorium and his ashes were thereafter buried with his parents at

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in rural south-east Fife, close to the family home of

. The grave (which he had designed himself at the death of his father) lies in the extreme south-west corner of this tiny and very remote churchyard, overlooking rural Fife towards the

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World War I work

Over and above the

, Lorimer was responsible for the simple and elegant design of the Commonwealth gravestone and for the design of several CWGC cemeteries in Germany (for PoWs dying in captivity) and in the Middle East. In 1918, Lorimer was appointed Principal Architect to the Imperial War Graves Commission. Between 1919 and 1927, he designed over three hundred war memorials in Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Macedonia, Egypt, Palestine, and one in Queenstown in South Africa. Cemeteries by Lorimer include:

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(Italy); Campo Santo in

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(Italy); Monte Sunio, Caltrano near

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(Italy); Savara (Italy);

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(Italy); Chatby (Egypt); El Arish (Egypt); Hadra near Alexandria (Egypt); Ismailia (Egypt); Kantara (Egypt); Minia (Egypt); Tel El-Kabir (Egypt); Lake Dorian (

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); Baranthal,

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near Vernice (Italy); Boscon, Asiago near Venice (Italy); Cairo War Cemetery (Italy); Cavalletto, Asiago near Venice (Italy); Doiran (Greece); Granezza, Asiago near Venice (Italy); Karasouli (

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); Hortakoi, Kirechkoi (

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); Lahana (Thessalonika); Magnaboschi, Asiago near Venice (Italy);

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near Venice (Italy);

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(Egypt);

; Sarigol near Kriston (Greece); Struma near Kalokastron (Greece);

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(Egypt); Stahnsdorf POW cemetery near

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(Germany); Colonial Hill (

); Delijski Vis, Palilula, Nis, Serbia; Niederzwehren POW cemetery near Berlin (Germany); Ohlsdorf POW cemetery near

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(Germany); Suedfriedhof POW cemetery near

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(Germany); Zehrensdorf POW cemetery near

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(Germany). Public or notable private war memorials by Lorimer include:

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Memorial in

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; 1st and 5th Battalions

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and

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memorials in

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in Edinburgh; 90th Light Infantry in Perth;

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Academy, Caddonfoot; Carnbee;

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(advocates memorial) in Edinburgh; Selkirk;

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; Lake Dorian in

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; Glenelg;

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; Newport, Monmouthshire;

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Freemasonry

He was initiated into Scottish Freemasonry in Lodge Holyrood House (St Luke's), No.44 on 8 March 1916.

Selected list of works

* Earlshall, Fife (1895) restoration *Swedish Club, Helsinki, Finland (1901) *

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, Ayrshire (1902) * Hill of Tarvit, Fife (1904) *

(1905) * St Peter's Morningside, Edinburgh was built from 1906 to 1907, and the nave 1928 to 1929. It is a category A listed building. * Harmeny House in Balerno *

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in St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh (1909–1911) *

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, Perth (addition of a memorial to those lost in

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)''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland''

Francis Hindes Groome Francis Hindes Groome (30 August 1851 – 24 January 1902) was a writer and foremost commentator of his time on the Romani people, their language, life, history, customs, beliefs, and lore. He was the son of Robert Hindes Groome, Archdeacon of ...

(1901) *

, in Edinburgh Castle (1923–28) *The Chapel,

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(1928)

References

External links

*
Resources at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

Hunterston Castle which Lorimer redesigned
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorimer, Robert 1864 births 1929 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Architects from Edinburgh Associates of the Royal Academy People educated at Edinburgh Academy 19th-century Scottish architects 20th-century Scottish architects