George Goldie (architect)

Goldie was born in York, the maternal grandson of the architect Joseph Bonomi the Elder. His paternal grandparents were George Sharpe Goldie and Sophia McDougall Osborne.[https://archive.org/details/a583126602gilluoft/page/510?q=%22george+goldie%22 Gillow, Joseph. A literary and biographical history, or bibliographical dictionary, of the English Catholics from the breach with Rome, in 1534, to the present time, Volume 2, London : Burns & Oates, 1885, p. 510]{{PD-notice}} After the death of her husband, Sophie went to Rouen and converted to Catholicism.

His father, also named George, became a medical doctor and was active in the Catholic Emancipation movement. In 1828, Dr. Goldie married Mary Anne Bonomi, daughter of Joseph Bonomi. Bonomi had a son, Ignatius, who would also become an architect. Dr. and Mrs. Goldie had nine children, three of whom died at a young age. George had five siblings: Francis, an artist, Very Rev. Mgr. Edward Canon Goldie, Rev. Fr. Francis Goldie, S.J. and Mary, nun who resided at St. Mary's Convent, York, as Mother Mary Walburga and Catherine who also became a nun in the same convent and adopted the name Mary but died at the age of twenty-eight.

Goldie was educated at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, County Durham.[http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200221 Dictionary of Scottish Architects] He was a student there when Augustus Pugin was working on the Chapel of St. Cuthbert. Goldie took such an interest that the two became friends, and it was Pugin who advised Goldie to study with Weightman and Hadfield.

From 1845 to 1850, he trained as an architect with John Grey Weightman and Matthew Ellison Hadfield of Sheffield, and thereafter worked in partnership with them. After Weightman left the partnership in 1858, Hadfield and Goldie remained partners for a further two years as "Hadfield & Goldie", practicing in Sheffield and London. From 1861 to 1867 Goldie was a solo practitioner in London when Charles Edwin Child (1843–1911) joined him in partnership as "Goldie & Child".

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Goldie was a native of York, where his father had been a prominent physician. He himself had been christened in St. Wilfrid's Chapel. When it came time to build a church, he designed it in Gothic Revival style. The arch over the main door has the most detailed Victorian carving in the city. It was considered to be "one of the most perfectly finished Catholic Churches in England, rich in sculpture, stained glass and fittings".[http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/catholic-resistance/church-of-st-wilfrid "Church of St Wilfrid", History of York] St. Wilfrid's served as the pro-Cathedral of the Diocese of Beverley until 1878 when Beverley was split into dioceses of Leeds and Middlesbrough.

In 1880 Goldie's son Edward (1856–1921) entered the partnership, having first been apprenticed in 1875. The firm was then known as "Goldie Child & Goldie.[https://www.dia.ie/architects/view/2198/GOLDIE%2C+GEORGE+%23 "Goldie, George", Dictionary of Irish Architects] Edward Goldie's work includes Hawkesyard Priory in Armitage, Staffordshire, built for the Dominican Order 1896–1914, and the church of Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More, Chelsea, built in 1895.

Goldie contributed articles on architectural subjects to The Month. In 1877, Pope Pius IX awarded George Goldie the Cross and Order of St. Sylvester for his work "as a Catholic architect."[http://caoimhindebhailis.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/order-of-sylvester.pdf The Waterford News and General Advertiser, July 13, 1877] Around 1796 Joseph Bonomi designed the original Catholic chapel on the corner of Spanish Place and Charles Street. His Great-grandson, Edward, won the competition for its replacement, the present St James's, Spanish Place,[https://books.google.com/books?id=aufcLv2wgtYC&dq=George+Goldie+%28architect%29&pg=PA462 "The Late Mr. George Goldie", The Tablet, March 19, 1887]{{PD-notice}} which opened on Michaelmas Day, 1890.

Goldie married Mdlle de Kersabiec. They had a number of children. He retired, for health reasons, to Saint-Servan, Brittany, where he died after a brief illness. He was buried at Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

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• Our Lady of Victories, Kensington (at the time of building, the Pro-Cathedral for the Archdiocese of Westminster)
• Reliquary at Bar Convent, York, where his two sisters were nuns [http://caoimhindebhailis.org/the-reliquary-at-york/]
• Chapel of Carmel House, Nunnery Lane, Darlington, County Durham, 1848–54
• St Patrick's Church, Bradford, 1853
• St Paul's Church, Hyde, 1853-54
• Interior furnishings of St John's Cathedral, Salford including the reredos of 1853–55, together with the adjoining buildings, called "Cathedral House"
• Interior, Saint Mary's Dominican Church, Pope's Quay, Cork, Ireland, 1868-71{{Cite web|url=http://caoimhindebhailis.org/cork-city-and-county/|title = Cork City and County}}

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• St Vincent's Church, Sheffield, 1856
• St Ninian's Church, Wooler, Northumberland, 1856
• Our Lady and St Edmund Church, Abingdon-on-Thames, 1857
• Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, Mount Vernon Street, Liverpool, 1857
• St Peter's Church, Scarborough, 1858{{NHLE|num=1258161|desc=|accessdate=3 January 2018}}
• Our Lady of the Garioch & St John the Evangelist, Fetternear, Aberdeenshire, 1859
• St Pancras Church, Ipswich, Suffolk, 1860[http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stpancrasips.htm St Pancras, Ipswich] 1861
• Ss Mary and Romuald, Yarm, North Yorkshire, 1860[https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/5279/historic-england-churches-top-the-list Wilkinson, Paul. "Historic England: Churches top the list", The Tablet, 10 March 2016]
• Additions and alterations to Pampisford Hall, Cambridgeshire, 1860
• York Oratory, 1862–64
• St. Scholastica's Abbey, Teignmouth, 1863{{cite web|url=https://teignwalks.wordpress.com/places/st-scholastica-abbey/|title=St Scholastica Abbey|website=Teignmouth Time Walks|date=7 January 2014|access-date=23 January 2019}}
• St Mary and St Augustine, Stamford, Lincolnshire, 1864–65
• St. Ignatius Church, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, 1865{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB47975|desc=Wishaw, Young Street, St Ignatius Roman Catholic Church including Boundary Wall and Gate Pier|cat=A|access-date=21 March 2019}}
• Tower of St Edward King and Confessor Catholic Church, Clifford, Leeds, 1859–66
• Church of St Mary and St John, Ballincollig, County Cork, 1865–66
• [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterior._St._Patrick%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church,_Bandon,_Co._Cork,_Ireland.tif St. Patrick's Church, Bandon, Co. Cork, Ireland, 1856-61].
• St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, 1867. [https://canmore.org.uk/site/209330/castle-douglas-abercromby-road-st-john-the-evangelist-roman-catholic-church] [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200358705-abercromby-road-st-john-the-evangelist-rc-church-presbytery-and-retaining-walls-castle-douglas-and-crocketford-ward]
• St. John's College, Waterford, 1868
• St Mary's Church, Stockton-on-Tees, chancel and aisle, 1870.
• St Mungo's Church, Townhead, Glasgow, 1841 and 1877{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB32814|desc=60 Parson Street, St Mungo's Church|cat=B|access-date=21 March 2019|fewer-links=yes}}
• St. Robert's Church, Harrogate, 1873
• Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Sligo, 1874{{cite book |last= Galloway |first= Peter|author-link= Peter Galloway |title= The Cathedrals of Ireland |publisher=The Institute of Irish Studies |year=1992 |pages=201–203 |isbn=0-85389-452-3}}
• Chapel of the Convent of the Assumption, Kensington Square, London, 1875
• St Mary and St Joseph's Church, Bedale, 1878 {{cite web |title=Bedale – St Mary and St Joseph |url=https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/bedale-st-mary-and-st-joseph/ |website=Taking Stock |publisher=Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales |access-date=29 May 2024}}
• Sacred Heart Church, Liverpool, 1886

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• {{cite book |last=Eastlake |first=Charles L |year=1872 |title=A history of the Gothic revival |pages=345–350 |url= https://archive.org/stream/historyofgothicr00east#page/344/mode/2up}}

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• [https://archive.today/20130411023437/http://www.halhed.com/t4r/getperson.php?personID=I6798&tree=tree1 George Goldie] at Halhed genealogy pages
• [http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/goldie/index.html George Goldie] at The Victorian Web
• [http://caoimhindebhailis.org/george-goldie-biography/ caoimhindebhailis.org], site dedicated to Goldie's work in Ireland
• [http://archiseek.com/tag/george-goldie/ Archiseek: Works by George Goldie]

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