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water-mill; and wall paintings. Monuments were stabilised and in many cases cleared and laid out for public viewing, and guide-books published for many of the sites (see below). As well as preserving and presenting ancient monuments, Richardson planned and designed the Museum in the
Commendator's House at Melrose Abbey. Richardson was also involved in scheduling ancient monuments, enabling the protection of sites that were not in public ownership
215:, which had assimilated the School of Applied Art. This left him little time for architectural work, and while Richardson remained a partner, and was able to attract clients through his official position, McKay did most of the practical work. Post-war work by the practice included the North Berwick War Memorial (1920) and the restoration of a fountain in Linlithgow Palace .
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Richardson carried out a number of archaeological excavations, both of monuments in public care and of other sites. In North
Berwick, he discovered many mediaeval floor tiles in a tile-kiln associated with the Cistercian Nunnery. In 1932 he excavated a cairn near Kalemouth, Roxburghshire. This was
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On the outbreak of war, the practise closed, and
Richardson volunteered for military service and joined the Royal Scots, with whom he had been a volunteer since 1909. His duties were in draft and training, and he spent most of the war in Britain, with time at the front in 1915 and 1918. He did not
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Richardson and McKay came into conflict with their old boss, Lorimer, over the latter's proposed design for the
Scottish National War Memorial. Richardson, as secretary of the Ancient Monuments Board, opposed the design, and was able to defeat the scheme partly by erecting a canvas mock-up of the
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Richardson withdrew from architectural practice in 1942, gave up teaching at the
Edinburgh College of Art in 1946, and retired from his position as Inspector of Ancient Monuments in 1948. He continued to be involved in archeological and antiquarian activities. He gave a series of lectures on The
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During the next two decades, he travelled throughout
Scotland, inspecting and cataloguing ancient remains, and in many cases making arrangements to take privately owned monuments into public care - in all over 90. Monuments included cairns and stone circles; churches; grave slabs; castles; a
211:, became a partner. McKay had studied at the School of Applied Art at the same time as Richardson, and had also worked in Lorimer's office. Richardson's position as Inspector of Ancient Monuments became full-time in 1920, and in 1922 he became a part-time lecturer in the
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Richardson set up his own practise in
Edinburgh in 1909. His first notable work was in North Berwick, the angel screen of the south apse of St Baldred Episcopal Church (1909). He was then responsible for the restoration of the ruined church of St Moluag,
192:, at Eoropie on the Isle of Lewis. In 1912 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland and in March 1914 was appointed inspector of Ancient Monuments in Scotland, this being at the time a part-time position.
144:(1883–1970) was a Scottish architect, antiquarian and archaeologist. He was the first Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Scotland, and was responsible for a series of popular guidebooks to monuments in public care.
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Mediaeval stone carver in
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Richardson was articled to the
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Richardson wrote and published numerous official guide-books to the monuments in public care. The following titles were made available (All published by
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memorial. Lorimer thought the mock-up gave no idea of what the final work would look like, and described
Richardson as an "irresponsible devil".
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forget archaeology during this period, and sent some late-Celtic pottery, found in the trenches in France, to the National Museum in Scotland.
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567:"A Hoard of Bronze Objects from Wester Ord, Ross-shire, and an Early Iron Age Burial at Blackness Castle, Linlithgowshire"
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on 2 November 1883 to Dr James T Richardson of North Berwick and his wife Christina Thomson. The family moved to
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The Cathedral Kirk of Moray: Elgin (with H.B. Mackintosh), 1934.
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829:The Buildings of Scotland: Highlands and Islands
348:Linlithgow Palace (with James Beveridge), 1934.
373:Full text of Second Edition 1948 available here
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354:The Abbey and Palace of Holyroodhouse, 1936.
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