Andrew Balfour
Illustration — Holmlea Primary School, Glasgow (now closed) Andrew Balfour FRIBA (1863 – 2 November 1943) was a Scottish architect.
Andrew Balfour
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- Born
- 1863
- Died
- 1943
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- architect
- Honours
- Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Holmlea Primary School, Glasgow (now closed) Andrew Balfour FRIBA (1863 – 2 November 1943) was a Scottish architect.
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Andrew Balfour (1863–1943) was an architect, of British and British nationality.
Languages used include English. Honours include Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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Andrew Balfour was born in 1863, the son of the baker Thomas Balfour, of Torryburn, Fife, and his wife Mary Campbell.
Career
Career
Together with Harry Steele, he established the firm of Steele & Balfour, which made its name through winning a competition to design Largs Parish Church in 1889. Balfour was admitted FRIBA on 11 June 1906. Balfour was the architect of the former bank premises that now house The Drum and Monkey in St. Vincent Street, Glasgow and he designed Gillespie Church in Dunfermline which was completed in 1849. He was the architect of Holmlea Primary School, a Category B listed former school at 352-362 Holmlea Road, Cathcart, Glasgow G44 4BY. It was built in 1908 from red Dumfriesshire ashlar in an Edwardian baroque style. It has been closed since at least 2004, and is currently classified as being in poor condition on the Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland.
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Personal life
Balfour died on 2 November 1943 at Rostrevor, Bridge of Weir. He was survived by his wife, Margaret Hood Frew.
A bicycle with milk pails, held by an African boy, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Photograph by Dr. Andrew Balfour, ca. 1910 (?)., 1910, by Andrew Balfour
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The Kilwa area (Nanganachi village?), Tanzania, East
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Andrew Balfour born.
1943
Andrew Balfour died.
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- 1.Andrew Balfour. scottisharchitects.org.
- 2.The Drum and Monkey. Nicholsons.
- 3.Gifford, John. Fife. Penguin. 185. 1988. 978-0-300-09673-6.
- 4.Holmlea Primary School and Janitors Lodge, 352-362, Holmlea Road, Cathcart. Buildings at Risk.
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