John Paterson

Seafield Baths, Leith. 1810. Seafield Road and Seafield Place.

John Paterson (died 1832) was a Scottish architect who trained with Robert Adam (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 Canongate in a building he had built with Francis Charteris, Earl of Wemyss and March 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 Fife 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 Elgin to work with Sir James Grant.

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, 1785–1790 Sundrum Castle, 1792. Dundee Royal Infirmary, 1794 The Bridewell Prison, Duke Street, Glasgow, 1795 Longforgan Parish Church, 1795 (incorporating older tower) Eglinton Castle, 1798 Barmoor Castle, c. 1801 Pinkie House, 1800 St Paul's Church, Perth, 1807 Barmoor Castle, Northumberland, 1801 Canaan Lodge, Edinburgh (as his own home), 1802 (demolished 1988 to build the Royal Blind School) Harviestoun Castle near Dollar, 1804 for Crauford Tait (demolished 1971) Leith Bank, Bernard Street, Leith, 1804 Magdalen Asylum, Canongate, Edinburgh, 1805 (demolished) Winton House, 1805 Milbourne Hall, 1807 Seafield Baths, Leith, 1810 Stonehaven Sheriff Court, 1810 Kinghorn Manse, 1816 Brancepeth Castle County Durham, 1818-21