Name

George Goldie

Designation
architect
Born
1828
Place of Birth
York
Location
Sheffield, London
Died
1887
  • Birth date               9 June 1828 at York
  • Married                 10 September 1855 Mdlle. Stylite, eldest daughter of the late Vicomte Siochan de Kersabiec of Nantes, at Nantes
  • Died                     1 March 1887 at Saint-Servan, Brittany.
  • Burial                    Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets.

 George Goldie was born at York on 9 June 1828, the son of George Goldie MD and Mary Anne (daughter of the architect Joseph Bonomi the Elder) and was educated at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, County Durham. He was articled to John Gray Weightman and Matthew Ellison Hadfield of Sheffield, from 1845 to 1850, and thereafter worked in partnership with them under the style Weightman Hadfield and Goldie. He was admitted ARIBA on 13 June 1853.

John Gray Weightman retired from the practice in 1858, the same year that it took over the office of William Wilkinson Wardell at 44 Parliament Street, Westminster, London. (Wardell had emigrated to Australia where he would become one of the leading architects).  George Goldie moved to London and ran the practice's office at that address until 1861, at which time he left the partnership to commence business on his own account. George Goldie practised alone until 1867 when Charles Edwin Child (1843–1911) joined him in partnership under the style “Goldie and Child.” In 1880 Goldie's eldest son, Edward (1856–1921), entered the partnership, having first been apprenticed in 1875. He built up an extensive practice, chiefly in the erection of Roman Catholic churches, convents, and secular buildings throughout the United Kingdom and, it is said, in France. Most of his designs were in an early type of Gothic, of English or French character.

Amongst the most important works executed by him, either alone or in combination with his partners, were the Pro-Cathedral, Kensington, churches at York, Middlesbrough, Ipswich, Scarborough and Harrogate, in England; Lanark, Glasgow and Greenock, in Scotland; the Cathedral of Sligo, and churches at Bandon, Waterford, Boyle and Phibsborough, in Ireland and Durban Natal. Among the secular and domestic buildings may be mentioned Upsal Castle, Thirsk, Yorkshire, for Captain Turton; Freshwater Manor-house, Isle of Wight, for the late Dr. Ward; restorations and additions to Tolethorpe Hall, Nottinghamshire, and Pampisford Hall, Cambridgeshire. Goldie did little work in North West England save for the Church of St Cuthbert, Withington

His marriage was recorded in Births Marriages and Deaths columns of The Lancet: “On the 10th September 1855, at Nantes, George Goldie of Sheffield, son of the late George Goldie, M.D., of York, married Mdlle. Stylite, eldest daughter of the late Vicomte Siochan de Kersabiec of Nantes. [The Lancet 22 September 1855 page 288. BMD] The couple had about ten children.His death took place on 1 March 1887 after a brief illness, at Le Val Riant, a manor-house near St. Servan, in Brittany, “whither he had retired to seek restoration of health by thorough rest from his professional labours.” He was buried at Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets.

Address
1853-1858    Sheffield
1858-1861    44 Parliament Street, Westminster, London,
1861             9, King Street, London
1862-1865    34 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London
1871-1887    9, Kensington Square

Residence
1841             St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, County Durham. (Census)
1861             5 Berkeley Gardens, Kensington Town
1871-1887    9, Kensington Square

Obituary        Builder 5 March 1887page 367
Obituary        Building News 4 March 1887 page 314
Obituary        RIBA Proceedings: 1887 New Series v9  pages 357 and 387
Obituary        The Tablet 19 March 1887 page 462
Reference      The Lancet 22 September 1855 page 288.BMD

 

 

 

Partnerships

Name Designation Formed Dissolved Location
Weightman Hadfield and Goldie Architectural practice 1852 1860 Sheffield
Goldie, Child, and Goldie Architectural practice 1867 London
Goldie and Child Architectural practice 1867 1880 London