James Ireland
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James Ireland (4 December 1846 – 29 June 1886) was a short-lived but productive 19th-century Scottish architect, specialising in schools.
Life
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He was born on 4 December 1846 at Hawkhill Place in Dundee the son of George Ireland and his wife, Janet Leslie. His father was a partner in George and James Ireland, owners of the Temple Mill on Tay Street, a flax mill.[1]
His family moved to "Tay View" at 287 Perth Road in Dundee (then a new house) around 1860. This is a large mid-terraced house overlooking the River Tay. In 1865/1866 his father went into partnership with Henry Samuel Boase to buy the Wellfield juteworks and created Boase & Ireland.[2]
In 1876 he went into partnership with David Maclaren designing new schools in the wake of the Education (Scotland) Act 1872.[3]
He lived at "Beechwood" in Dundee in his final years.[4]
He died in a friend's house at Blairgowrie of either gangrene and/or tuberculosis at on 29 June 1886, aged only 39.[5] He is buried with his siblings in the Western Cemetery, Dundee. The grave lies on the west side of the central path just before the first terrace.
Family
[edit]In October 1884 he married Ada Greenhaigh at Manchester Cathedral.
Main works
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- Ancrum Road School (1874)
- Braeknowe House (1874)
- North Dudhope Mill (1874)
- Clepington School (1875)
- Primary School, Coupar Angus (1875)
- Damacre Road School, Brechin (1875)
- Dyehouse at Wellfield Works (1875) for Boase and Ireland.
- Dudhope School (1875)
- St David's School (1875)
- Balfour Street School (1876)
- Primary School, Newport-on-Tay (1876)
- Primary School, Carnoustie (1876)
- High Free Church, Hilltown of Dundee (1877)
- Primary School, Monifieth (1877)
- "Mount Pleasant" (1879)
- Sailors Home (The Angel, Dundee) (1879)
- "Great Eastern" Public House, Dock Street (1880)
- Grosvenor Terrace (1882)
- Mitchell Street School (1883)
- Chemistry Laboratories, University College (1883)
- Butterburn School (1883)
- Dundee and District Female Rescue Home, Lochee (1883)
- Harris Academy (1884) original Park Place building
- Glebelands School (1884)
- Rosebank School (1885)
References
[edit]- ^ Dundee Post Office Directory 1846
- ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Former Wellfield Works (LB25018)".
- ^ "Ireland & Maclaren". Dictionary of Scottish Architects.
- ^ Dundee Post Office Directory 1885
- ^ Grave of James Ireland, Western Cemetery, Dundee
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