Old Photograph Culdees Castle Muthill Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of Culdees Castle by Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland. The original architect of Culdees Castle was James Gillespie Graham in 1810, but extensive additions were carried out by David Bryce in 1866. The building was demolished in 1967. James Gillespie Graham was was born in Dunblane on 11th June 1776, the son of Malcolm Gillespie, a solicitor. He was christened simply as James Gillespie. Graham designed principally country houses and churches. He is also well known for his interior design, his most noted work in this respect being that at Taymouth Castle and Hopetoun House. Some of his principal churches include St Andrew's Cathedral in Glasgow, and St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral and the Highland Tolbooth Church in Edinburgh. His houses include Cambusnethan House in Lanarkshire. He was also responsible for laying out the Drumsheugh area of Edinburgh's New Town, and for the design of Hamilton Square and adjoining streets in the then new town of Birkenhead, England. In 1815 he married Margaret Ann Graham, daughter of a wealthy landowner, William Graham of Orchill in Perthshire. On 1825, on the death of his wife's father, they inherited his large country estate and James thereafter became known as James Gillespie Graham. James had two daughters by Margaret who died in 1826, soon after the inheritance. James secondly married Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Major John Campbell of the 76th Regiment of Foot. James Gillespie Graham died in Edinburgh on 11 March 1855 after a four-year illness.



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