Sydney Mitchell Architect Practice, Building Projects, Scotland Designs, Scottish Works

Sydney Mitchell Architect

Scottish Architecture Practice, UK: Historic Architecture Practice based in Scotland

post updated 19 May 2025

Sydney Mitchell Architect – Key Projects

Major Buildings by Sydney Mitchell, (1856-1930), all in Scotland

Well Court, Dean Village, Edinburgh
Dates built: 1883-86

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Well Court – featured on the Edinburgh Architecture website

Ramsay Gardens – phase 2, off Royal Mile, Old Town, Edinburgh
Date built: –

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Ramsay Gardens

Red Home building, former Royal Infirmary site, Lauriston, Edinburgh
Date built: –
Quartermile

Further Key Buildings by architect Sydney Mitchell:

3 Rothesay Terrace – alterations: John R Findlay’s house, Dean Village, Edinburgh
Date built: –

Mercat Cross – restoration, off Royal Mile, Old Town, Edinburgh
Date built: 1885

Seventh Day Adventist Church, 2-3 Bristo Place, Old Town, Edinburgh
Dates built: 1899-1900
Architects: Sydney Mitchell and Wilson
Seventh Day Adventist Church – featured on the Edinburgh Architecture website

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Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sydney Mitchell Practice Information

Sydney Mitchell Architect – Education
Edinburgh University

He started work for respected Edinburgh architect Robert Rowand Anderson in 1878.

Sydney set up practice in 1883. He based his office in Edinburgh New Town at 122 George Street.

Mitchell was born in Larbert, Stirlingshire; he died in St Andrews, Fife.

He is buried at Merchiston Cemetery.

Key client: John R Findlay, proprietor of The Scotsman newspaper.

Scottish Architects Practices

In 1885, Mitchell was engaged to restore Edinburgh’s Mercat Cross. This led to a commission to recreate several of Edinburgh’s demolished medieval buildings, including the Netherbow, as part of the Edinburgh Exhibition of 1886. He continued to draw on the Scots Renaissance style, which he had employed at Well Court, in such projects as Duntreath Castle (1890).

In 1900 his office was at 13 Young Street in Edinburgh’s New Town and he was living slightly to the north, in a Georgian building at 34 Drummond Place.

George Wilson retired in 1907, and he sold the architecture practice around 1910.

Sydney retired to Gullane, East Lothian, where he died unmarried in 1930. He was buried in the family plot at Rosebank Cemetery in Edinburgh. The grave lies on the north-facing retaining wall in the centre of the cemetery.
source: wikipedia