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Spence, Sir Basil (Urwin)
(b Bombay, 13 Aug 1907; d Eye, Suffolk, 19 Nov 1976). Scottish architect. He studied at the School of Architecture of Edinburgh College of Art (c. 1925–30), and in evening classes at London University under Albert E. Richardson (1929–30). Spence travelled in England, Scotland, France and Germany to measure and draw buildings (1925–31). In 1929–30 he worked as assistant in Sir Edwin Lutyens’s office in London. From 1931, in partnership with William Kininmonth (1904–88), Spence designed small houses in and around Edinburgh, and then from 1935, as partner in Rowand Anderson Paul and Partners, large country houses. Broughton Place (1935–7), near Peebles, Borders, was designed in the manner of a 16th-century tower-house with harled walls, crow-stepped gables, staircase towers and massive chimney-stacks. At Gribloch (1937–9), Central, Spence combined a neo-Regency idiom with modernistic details and an opulent interior, the latter specified by his clients, their American consultant, Perry Duncan, and their decorators.
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