Peter MacGregor Chalmers LLD (14 March 1859 – 15 March 1922) was a Scottish architect specialising in country churches, and also being involved in several important restoration schemes.
Chalmers was born on 14 March 1859, the son of George, a mechanical engineer, and his wife, Jane (née MacGregor). He was educated at Glasgow Secular School, then articled to the architect John Honeyman. He set up in private practice from 1887.[1]
From around 1900 many of his churches adopt a very distinctive circular tower.
In 1904 he was living at 6 Minard Road (now Turnberry Road) in Glasgow.[2] The property is a substantial four-bedroom tenement flat, in Glasgow's west end. His offices were in a more prestigious property at 95 Bath Street.He travelled very widely, and Glasgow University awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1920 for his writings.
He died of a heart attack while visiting his cousin, Rev. R. H. Fisher, in Edinburgh on 15 March 1922.[3] He is buried in the lower southern section of the Glasgow Necropolis alongside the north-east path that leads to the main, upper section.
In 1905 he was married to Barbara Greig Steel (1860–1939) of Partick.
Chalmers designed several war memorials from 1919, these include: Cambuslang Parish Church; Morebattle Parish Church; Burntisland Parish Church; Kelvinside Free Church; Memorial Chapel in St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh; West Linton Parish Church; Abbey Parish Church in Kilwinning; Barony Church, Glasgow; Memorial arch in Dyke, Moray; Rosneath Church; St Salvator's College, St Andrews; Crieff; Memorial window Uphall.