![]() ![]() However a paper published by the Institute in 1865, as a result of Sir George Gilbert Scott’s address, he says, ‘seems to me to consist largely of recommendations for their destruction’. Yet the process has been going steadily on, approved by clergy and architects, the press and the public. It is difficult after reading his address to believe that any more old churches would be destroyed by restoration. In it he cites Scott’s ‘admirable address on the evils of restoration’, read to the Institute in 1862 and then said: It was entitled ‘Architectural Restoration: its principles and practice’. On, with the President, Charles Barry, in the chair, Stevenson delivered his bombshell. Robson had been a member of the Institute since 1860 and had probably invited Stevenson to Conduit Street to give a paper although Stevenson did not become a member until the year after Scott’s death. He was now in the fore-front of the Queen Anne Movement with other well-heeled alumni of Scott’s, such as Bodley, Garner and Jackson. ![]() In 1870 he settled in London and built his own house, the Red House on Bayswater Hill, which became the prototype Queen Anne town house. He then returned to Glasgow, where he built many new churches in partnership with Campbell Douglas, and although he is not notable as a church restorer, this did not prevent him from delivering an outspoken attack on Scott’s church restorations at the Institute in 1877.Īfter 1866, when Stevenson was involved in ‘Greek’ Thomson’s assault against Sir George Gilbert Scott over the Glasgow University commission, he had inherited a fortune, dissolved his Glasgow partnership and ‘spent two leisurely years writing and holidaying in Paris and Broadstairs’. After a tour of Italy he decided to become an architect, and in 1856 joined the office of David Bryce in Edinburgh, where he stayed for two years before coming south to enter Scott’s office. Stevenson, like Jackson, entered architecture late, having first attended Glasgow University and trained for the ministry in Edinburgh. ![]()
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