Andrew Heiton (3 April 1823 – 3 March 1894) was a Scottish architect.Andrew Heiton
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He designed several notable buildings in Scotland, mostly

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s and

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Early life

Heiton was born in

Inchture Inchture ( gd, Innis Tùir) is a village in Scotland between Dundee and Perth on the northern side of the Firth of Tay. It is approximately nine miles (14 km) from Dundee city centre and 13 miles (21 km) from Perth. The village is bypa ...

Perth and Kinross Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland and S ...

,"Hazardous headstones marked for removal at historic Perth churchyard"
– '' The Courier'', 4 June 2019 the son of Andrew Heiton, another architect, and Janet Lorimer.''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland''

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(1901) He had at least one brother, the younger Thomas Arthur Heiton.

Career

Heiton served as an apprentice under his father, who had moved to

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. He then worked with

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and

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, before returning to practice with his father in the mid-1840s. John Murray Robertson became their apprentice in the mid-19th century. The duo built or added to several railway stations, including that of

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and

. They also served as the Perth's City Architects from 1856, succeeding

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estate, in the

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, restoring its 16th-century tower. Heiton was admitted as a Fellow of the

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(FRIBA) on 23 June 1879, his proposers being

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, John Baird and James Salmon.

Notable works

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(addition of a two-storey extension to the north of the main block, 1854) * Stirling railway station (1848) * Abbey Presbyterian Church,

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(1864) * Castelroy,

Broughty Ferry Broughty Ferry (; Scottish Gaelic: ''Bruach Tatha''; Scots: ''Brochtie'') is a suburb of Dundee, Scotland. It is situated four miles east of the city centre on the north bank of the Firth of Tay. The area was a separate burgh from 1864 until ...

(1867) * St Mary's Monastery,

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(1868) *

Kinfauns Parish Church Kinfauns Parish Church is a Church of Scotland church in Kinfauns, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Dating to 1869, the work of architect Andrew Heiton and John Murray Robertson, it is now a Category C listed building. The ruined pre-Reformation ...

(1869; with John Murray Robertson) *

Craigievar and Darnick Craigievar and Darnick is an historic double villa in Kinnoull, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Located on Kinnoull Terrace, it is a Category B listed building, built around 1870. The work of architect Andrew Heiton, who lived at the property upon it ...

(1870), Kinnoull * Greig Institute,

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(1872) * Victoria Buildings, Perth (1872) * 26 Tay Street, Perth (c. 1873) *

Vogrie House Vogrie House forms the centrepiece of Vogrie Country Park in Midlothian. It was built for James Dewar and his family in 1876 by Andrew Heiton, the town architect for Perth, Scotland, Perth. Dewar was the creator of Dewar's whisky. The curren ...

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(1875) * Station Hotel, Perth (1885) * St Andrew's Church, Perth (1885) * Fonab Castle, Perth and Kinross (1892)

Personal life

In 1870, Heiton's self-designed double villa,

, on Perth's

Kinnoull Terrace Kinnoull Terrace is a street in the Kinnoull parish of Perth, Scotland. A cul-de-sac, it contains five properties (four villas and one double villa), each of which is of listed status and dating from the 19th century. The street was designed sp ...

, was completed.''Perth and Kinross'', John Gifford (2007), p. 655

Death

Heiton died in Perth in 1894, aged 70. He is buried in Greyfriars Burial Ground, just off the city's Tay Street, where several of his works still stand. His headstone was one of several removed and restored in 2019. His practice was taken on by his nephew Andrew Granger Heiton, Andrew Heiton Granger, who switched around his name to become Andrew Granger Heiton.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Heiton, Andrew 1823 births 1894 deaths 19th-century Scottish architects Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects Architects from Perth, Scotland