Frederick Thomas Pilkington

Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832 – October 1898) was a Scottish architect, practising in the Victorian High Gothic revival style. His father was also an architect.

Frederick Thomas Pilkington practised as an architect in Edinburgh from 1860 to 1883. In Edinburgh Pilkington concentrated on churches for the Free Church of Scotland, where worship focused not on a nave and altar, but on the pulpit and the "Word of God". Pilkington developed a new style of church building which accorded with the fashionable Gothic style but was adapted for the worship needs of the Free Church of Scotland.

His notable buildings in Scotland include:

In Edinburgh:

• Barclay Church 1862-4
• 38 Dick Place (Pilkington's own house which he called Egremont, built within the Grange Park House estate), 1865–1870
• 48–50 Dick Place, 1864
• 158–164 Grove Street, 1864
• Kingston Clinic, 1867–69
• 1–7 Coltbridge Terrace, 1869
• St David and St Oswald's, Viewforth, 1871
• 129–131 Grange Loan, 1872
• Daniel Stewart's Boarding House (formerly Dean Park House), 1874
• 3 Queensferry Terrace, Dean Park House Stable Block, 1874
• 8 Spylaw Road, mid-1870s
• 39–51 Deanhaugh Street, 1880–81
• Sunnybrae Lodge and Stables, Walkerburn, 1868

Elsewhere in Scotland:

• A small church in Auchengray, South Lanarkshire
• Trinty Church, Irvine, Ayrshire, currently on the Buildings at Risk register for Scotland.^[1]
• Innerleithen Church, Innerleithen, Scottish Borders, (1864–67), still in use.^[2]
• Kelso North Parish Church (1866)
• Penicuik Old South Church (1862)
• Spier's school, Beith, Ayrshire. Memorial shrine to John Spier.
• Marine Hotel in North Berwick
• McCheyne Memorial Church, Perth Road, Dundee (1869-70) [1]</ref>

In 1883 Pilkington moved to London and began work on the Army and Navy Hotel on Victoria Street and started to design residential flats for both the Artisans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company and for the middle-classes. This second category of flats include Kensington's Campden Hill Court and Battersea's York Mansions. Pilkington did not see the completion of York Mansions, his last commission, as he died before its completion in 1901.

References

• Dictionary of Scottish Architects, 1840–1940
• Scran photographs of Egremont
• Marine Hotel, North Berwick (Information on Display)