The James M MacLaren Society encourages interest in architectural heritage, especially the work of James Marjoribanks MacLaren and his colleagues and successors in the arts and crafts and Scottish vernacular traditions.

Our latest journal features articles on Rosehaugh, built in the Black Isle by William Flockhart but now demolished.   On Friday 22nd May 2010, Kathleen MacLeman gave a talk on this fascinating house in the Molteno Hall, Fortingall.  The summer 2010 journal will include important articles on George Washington Browne  and Philip Clissett

Our previous speakers have included John McKean, Professor of Architecture at the University of Brighton, who last year gave a ground-breaking talk entitled  "Was Mackintosh Different?"  He showed how CRM's character explained many facets of his work and how despite his undoubted genius his architectural career was so short.  And Simon Green returned to talk on Scottish Arts and Crafts Churches in Fortingall Kirk on 28th August 2009.  Fortingall kirk, designed by MacLaren's successors Dunn and Watson, also features in Vol 6 of the Society Journal.

           Fortingall kirk and ancient yew