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Giles Gilbert Scott

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, OM (9 November 1880 8

February 1960) was an English architect known for his
work on such structures as Liverpool Cathedral, Waterloo
Bridge and Battersea Power Station and designing the
iconic red telephone box.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
Scott came from a family of architects. He was noted for

his blending of Gothic tradition with modernism, making
what might have been functionally designed buildings into
popular landmarks.
Contents
1 Life and career
1.1 Early years
1.2 Liverpool Cathedral
1.3 Other early work
1.4 1920s
1.5 1930s
1.6 1940s
1.7 Last years
Scott in 1924 at the time of the consecration of

Liverpool Cathedral
Born
9 November 1880
Hampstead, Middlesex, England
Died
8 February 1960 (aged 79)

Bloomsbury, Greater London,
1.8 Burial & Grave

1.9 Family
2 Works
England
3 Notes and references

4 Sources
5 External links
Nationality
United Kingdom
Alma mater Beaumont College

Buildings
Battersea Power Station, Liverpool

Cathedral, House of Commons
Life and career

Early years
Born in Hampstead, London, Scott was one of six children and the third son of George Gilbert Scott, Jr. and
his wife, Ellen King Samson.[1] His father was an architect, the son of Sir George Gilbert Scott, a more
famous architect, known for designing the Albert Memorial and the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras
Station.[2]
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When Scott was three, his father was declared to be of unsound mind and was temporarily confined to a
hospital. Consequently his sons saw little of him. Giles later said that he remembered seeing his father only
twice. A bequest from an uncle in 1889 gave the young Scott ownership of Hollis Street Farm, near Ninfield,
Sussex, with a life tenancy to his mother.[3] During the week Ellen Scott and her three sons lived in a flat in
Battersea, spending weekends and holidays at the farm.[4] She regularly took them on bicycling trips to
sketch buildings in the area, and encouraged them to take an interest in architecture.[5] Among the buildings
the young Scott drew were Battle Abbey, Brede Place and Etchingham Church; Scott's son, Richard Gilbert
Scott, suggests that the last, with its solid central tower "was perhaps the germ of Liverpool Cathedral".[4]
Scott and his brothers were raised as Roman Catholics; their father was a Catholic convert. Giles attended
Beaumont College on the recommendation of his father who admired the buildings of its preparatory school,
the work of J.F.Bentley.[6] In January 1899 Scott became an articled pupil in the office of Temple Moore,
who had studied with Scott's father.[n 1] From Moore, or Ellen Scott, or from his father's former assistant P.
B. Freeman, Scott got to know the work of his father.[5] In a 2005 study of Scott's work, John Thomas
observes that Scott senior's "important church of St Agnes, Kennington (187477; 1880s93) clearly
influenced Giles's early work, including Liverpool Cathedral Lady Chapel."[5]
In later years Scott remarked to John Betjeman, "I always think that my father was a genius. He was a far
better architect than my grandfather and yet look at the reputations of the two men!"[3][n 2] Scott's father and
his grandfather had been exponents of High Victorian Gothic; Scott, when still a young man, saw the
possibility of designing in Gothic without the profusion of detail that marked their work.[1] He had an
unusually free hand in working out his ideas, as Moore generally worked at home, leaving Freeman to run
the office.[3]
Liverpool Cathedral
In 1901, while Scott was still a pupil in Moore's practice, the diocese of Liverpool announced a competition
to select the architect of a new cathedral. Two well-known architects were appointed as assessors for an
open competition for architects wishing to be considered.[11] G. F. Bodley was a leading exponent of the
Gothic revival style, and a former pupil and relative by marriage of Scott's grandfather.[12] R. Norman Shaw
was an eclectic architect, having begun in the Gothic style, and later favouring what his biographer Andrew
Saint calls "full-blooded classical or imperial architecture".[13] Architects were invited by public
advertisement to submit portfolios of their work for consideration by Bodley and Shaw. From these, the two
assessors selected a first shortlist of architects to be invited to prepare drawings for the new building.
For architects, the competition was an important event; not only was it for one of the largest building
projects of its time, but it was only the third opportunity to build an Anglican cathedral in England since the
Reformation in the 16th century (St Paul's Cathedral being the first, rebuilt from scratch after the Great Fire
of London in 1666, and Truro Cathedral being the second, begun in the 19th century).[14] The competition
attracted 103 entries,[14] from architects including Temple Moore, Charles Rennie Mackintosh[15] and
Charles Reilly.[16] With Moore's approval, Scott submitted his own entry, on which he worked in his spare
time.[3]
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In 1903, the assessors recommended that Scott should be appointed. There was widespread comment at the
nomination of a twenty-two-year-old with no existing buildings to his credit. Scott admitted that so far his
only design to be constructed had been a pipe-rack.[n 3] The choice of winner was even more contentious
when it emerged that Scott was a Roman Catholic,[n 4] but the assessors' recommendation was accepted by
the diocesan authorities.[3]
Because of Scott's age and inexperience, the cathedral committee appointed Bodley as joint architect to work
in tandem with him.[18] A historian of Liverpool Cathedral observes that it was generous of Bodley to enter
into a working relationship with a young and untried student.[19] Bodley had been a close friend of Scott's
father, but his collaboration with the young Scott was fractious, especially after Bodley accepted
commissions to design two cathedrals in the US,[n 5] necessitating frequent absences from Liverpool.[3]
Scott complained that this "has made the working partnership agreement more of a farce than ever, and to
tell the truth my patience with the existing state of affairs is about exhausted".[20] Scott was on the point of
resigning when Bodley died suddenly in 1907, leaving him in charge.[21] The cathedral committee appointed
Scott sole architect, and though it reserved the right to appoint another co-architect, it never seriously
considered doing so.[5]
In 1910 Scott realised that he was not happy with the main
design, which looked like a traditional Gothic cathedral in the
style of the previous century. He persuaded the cathedral
committee to let him start all over again (a difficult decision, as
some of the stonework had already been erected) and redesigned
it as a simpler and more symmetrical building with a single
massive central tower instead of the original proposal for twin
towers.[22] Scott's new plans provided more interior space.[23] At
the same time Scott modified the decorative style, losing much
of the Gothic detailing and introducing a more modern,
Liverpool Cathedral
monumental style.[24]
The Lady Chapel,[5] the first part of the building to be

completed, was consecrated in 1910 by Bishop Chavasse in the presence of two archbishops and 24 other
bishops.[25] Work was severely limited during the First World War, with a shortage of manpower, materials
and money.[26] By 1920, the workforce had been brought back up to strength and the stone quarries at
Woolton, source of the red sandstone for most of the building, reopened.[26] The first section of the main
body of the cathedral was complete by 1924, and on 19 July 1924, the 20th anniversary of the laying of the
foundation stone, the cathedral was consecrated in the presence of King George V and Queen Mary, and
bishops and archbishops from round the globe.[26]
Construction continued throughout the 1930s, but slowed drastically throughout the Second World War, as it
had done during the First. Scott continued to work on the project until his death, refining the design as he
went. He designed every aspect of the building down to the fine details. The cathedral was finished in 1978,
nearly two decades after Scott's death.[27]
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Other early work

While Scott was feuding with Bodley in Liverpool, he managed to design and see built his first complete
church. This was the Church of the Annunciation, a Roman Catholic church in Bournemouth, in which he
made a high transept similar to his original plan for Liverpool.[3] His work on another new Roman Catholic
church at Sheringham, Norfolk showed his preference for simple Gothic frontages.[3] Other churches built
by Scott at this time, at Ramsey on the Isle of Man, Northfleet in Kent and Stoneycroft in Liverpool, show
the development of his style. While working in Liverpool, Scott met and married Louise Wallbank Hughes,
a receptionist at the Adelphi Hotel; his mother was displeased to learn that she was a Protestant.[3] The
marriage was happy, and lasted until Louise Scott's death in 1949. They had three sons, one of whom died in
infancy.[3]
During the First World War Scott was a Major in the Royal Marines. He was in charge of building sea
defences on the English Channel coast.[3]
1920s
As Liverpool Cathedral rose Scott's fame grew, and he began to
secure commissions for secular buildings.[3] One of the first was
for Clare College, Cambridge, Memorial Court, which was in a
neo-Georgian style on the west bank of the River Cam.[1] This
style was also used for a house he designed for himself in
Clarendon Place, Paddington in 1924, which won the annual
medal for London street architecture of the Royal Institute of
British Architects in 1928.[28] Scott's residential buildings are
few; one of the best known is the Cropthorne Court mansion
block in Maida Vale, where the frontage juts out in diagonals to
eliminate the need for lightwells.[3]
K2 red telephone boxes preserved as a

tourist attraction near Covent Garden,
London
Cropthorne Court, Maida Vale (1930).
Scott continued
working on churches
during the inter-war
years. Shortly after
his work on the nave
at Downside Abbey
he was
commissioned to
design the small
Roman Catholic
Church of Our Lady
& St Alphege, Bath,
the first part of
Battersea Power Station
which was completed in 1929.[29] His design was inspired by the
church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome.[30] Scott's distillation of the main elements of that large and
ancient church into the much smaller Bath parish church has been described as "a delight" which "cannot fail
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to astonish".[29][31] Some 25 years later he wrote "The church was my first essay into the Romanesque style
of architecture. It has always been one of my favourite works".[31] On the capital of one of the pillars
beneath the west gallery W. D. Gough carved a representation of the architect, and a shield inscribed
"Aegidio architecto" (By Giles the architect) possibly the only depiction of Scott in stone.[30]
Scott's most ubiquitous design was for the General Post Office.[3] He was one of three architects invited by
the Royal Fine Arts Commission to submit designs for new telephone kiosks.[n 6] The invitation came at the
time Scott was made a trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum. His design was in the classical style, topped with
a dome reminiscent of the mausoleum Soane designed for himself in St Pancras Old Churchyard,
London.[33] It was the chosen design and was put into production in cast iron as the GPO's "Kiosk no. 2" or
"K2".[33] Later designs adapted the same general look for mass production: the Jubilee kiosk, introduced for
King George V's silver jubilee in 1935 and known as the "K6" eventually became a fixture in almost every
town and village.[34][n 7]
1930s
In 1930 the London Power Company engaged Scott as consulting architect for its new electricity generating
station at Battersea. The building was designed by the company's chief engineer, Leonard Pearce, and Scott's
role was to enhance the external appearance of the massive architecture.[n 8] He opted for external
brickwork, put some detailing on the sheer walls, and remodelled the four corner chimneys so that they
resembled classical columns.[3] Battersea Power Station, opened in 1933 but disused since 1982, remains
one of the most conspicuous industrial buildings in London. At the time of its opening, The Observer,
though expressing some reservations about details of Scott's work, called it "one of the finest sights in
London".[n 9] In a poll organised by The Architectural Review in 1939 to find what lay people thought were
Britain's best modern buildings, Battersea Power Station was in second place, behind the Peter Jones
building.[38]
In Cambridge, next to Clare Memorial Court, Scott designed a matching library for the University of
Cambridge. He placed two six-storey courtyards in parallel with a twelve-storey tower in the centre, and
linked the windows vertically to the bookstacks. The main reading room measured nearly 2,000 feet by 41
feet and 31 feet high, lit by 25 round-headed clerestory windows on each side.[39] At the time of its opening
in 1934, The Times commented that the building displayed "the same enjoyment of modelling in mass which
is Sir Giles Scott's chief personal contribution to contemporary architecture."[39]
Scott was elected president of the Royal Institute of British Architects for 1933, its centenary year (having
already been awarded the RIBA's prestigious Royal Gold Medal in 1925).[40] In his presidential address he
urged colleagues to adopt what he called "a middle line": to combine the best of tradition with a fresh
modern approach, to eschew dogma, and recognise "the influence of surroundings on the choice of materials
and the technique of their use. My plea is for a frank and common-sense acceptance of those features and
materials which are practical and beautiful, regardless as to whether they conform with the formula of either
the modern or the traditional school."[41]
From 1937 to 1940, Scott worked on the New Bodleian Library, in Broad Street in Oxford. It is not
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generally considered his finest work. Needing to provide storage for millions of books without building
higher than the surrounding structures, he devised a construction going deep into the earth, behind two
elevations no higher than those around them.[1] His biographer A S G Butler commented, "In an attempt to
be polite to these which vary from late Gothic to Victorian Tudor Scott produced a not very impressive
neo-Jacobean design".[1] A later biographer, Gavin Stamp, praises the considerable technical achievement of
keeping the building low in scale by building underground, but agrees that aesthetically the building is not
among Scott's most successful.[3] Nikolaus Pevsner dismisses it as "neither one thing nor the other".[42]
1940s
Scott's search for the "middle line" caused him difficulties when he was appointed as architect for the new
Coventry Cathedral in 1942. Pressured by the new Bishop of Coventry for a modern design and by the Royal
Fine Arts Commission for a recreation of the old cathedral, he was criticised for trying to compromise
between the two and designing a building that was neither fish nor fowl. Unable to reconcile these
differences Scott resigned in 1947; a competition was held and won by Basil Spence with an
uncompromisingly modern design.
After the Commons chamber of the Palace of Westminster was destroyed by bombs in 1941, Scott was
appointed in 1944 to rebuild it. Here he was hemmed in entirely by the surviving building, but was entirely
of the view that the new chamber should be congruent with the old as anything else would clash with the
Gothic style of Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin. This view found favour with Winston Churchill who
observed "We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us[43]". In a debate on 25 January
1945 the House of Commons approved his choice by 121 to 21 on a free vote.
Last years
After the immediate rush for building work caused by war damage had died down, Scott put a new roof on
the Guildhall in the City of London and designed modernistic brick offices for the Corporation just to the
north. Despite having opposed placing heavily industrial buildings in the centre of cities, he accepted a
commission to build Bankside Power Station on the bank of the River Thames in Southwark, where he built
on what he had learnt at Battersea and gathered all the flues into a single tower. This building was converted
in the late 1990s into Tate Modern art gallery.
Scott continued to receive commissions for religious buildings.
At Preston, Lancashire he built a Roman Catholic church which
is notable for an unusually long and repetitive nave. His
Carmelite Church in Kensington, up the road from St Mary
Abbots built by his grandfather, used transverse concrete arches
to fill a difficult site (the church replaced another lost in the
war). Scott created the design of the Trinity College Chapel in
Toronto, completed in 1955, a lovely example of the
perpendicular Gothic, executed by the local firm of George and
Moorhouse and featuring windows by E. Liddall Armstrong of
Whitefriars.
Scott remained working into his late 70s. He was working on
designs for the Roman Catholic Church of Christ the King,
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church,

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Plymouth, when he developed lung cancer. He took the designs

into University College Hospital, where he continued to revise
them until his death aged 79.
Kensington
Burial & Grave

Scott was buried by the monks of Ampleforth[44] outside the west entrance of Liverpool Cathedral,
alongside his wife (as a Roman Catholic he could not be buried inside the body of the Cathedral).[45]
Although originally planned in the 1942 design for the west end of the Cathedral to be within a porch, the
site of the grave was eventually covered by a car park access road.[46] The road layout was changed, the
grave was restored and the grave marker replaced in 2012.[47]
A requiem mass for Scott was celebrated by Father Patrick Casey at St James's Roman Catholic Church,
Spanish Place, London, on 17 February 1960.[48]
Family
In addition to his father and grandfather, other members of Scott's family who were architects included an
uncle, John Oldrid Scott, a brother, Adrian Gilbert Scott and son Richard Gilbert Scott.
Works
Work
St Botolph's
Church
Liverpool
Cathedral
Place
Carlton-inCleveland,
Yorkshire
Liverpool
Date
Notes
189697
designed by
Temple
Moore with
Scott as clerk
of works
190360
completed
posthumously
in 1978
Nanfans (private Prestwood,

1903
house)
Buckinghamshire
Chapel in
London Road
Harrow, London 190506
Church of the
Annunciation
(RC)
Bournemouth,
Dorset
1906
Church of the
Holy Ghost
Midsomer
190713
Norton, Somerset
Nave seating,
All Saints'
Bubwith,
22 Weymouth Street
conversion of
a tithe barn
for use as a
church
1909
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Church
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Yorkshire
North Block at Guildhall
East window, St Burnby,

Giles's Church Yorkshire
1909
Our Lady Star of

the Sea and St
Ramsey, Isle of
Maughold
Man
Church (RC)
190912
Nave, St Mary's
Bury, Lancashire c. 1910
Church
St Joseph's
Church (RC)
Chester
Cathedral,
restoration
Sheringham,
Norfolk
Chester,
Cheshire
Chancel of All Gospel Oak,

Hallows' Church London
Whitelands Teacher Training College,

pictured in 2005 while undergoing
conversion to residential accommodation.
191036
191113
cloisters, east
window of
refectory,
rood in the
crossing
191315
Church of Our
Lady of the
Assumption
(RC)
Northfleet, Kent 191316
Lady Chapel
reredos, St
Michael's
Church (RC)
Elswick,
Newcastle upon
Tyne
Clare Memorial Court
1914
Rood Beam, St Hawarden,

Deiniol's Church Flintshire
191516
St Paul's
Church,
Stoneycroft
1916
Liverpool
129 Grosvenor
Road
London
c. 1918
Chancel, St
Catherine's
Church
Pontypridd,
Glamorgan
1919
War memorial
Hanmer,
Flintshire
1919
War memorial
Hawarden,
Flintshire
191920
War memorial,
St Saviour's
Church
Oxton,
Birkenhead,
Cheshire
1920
loggia,
private house
for Arthur
Stanley
Chester House
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War memorial
cross, Our Lady Clapham,
of Victories
London
Church (RC)
1920
Alterations to
south chancel
chapel, Church
of St Mary
Abbot
Kensington,
London
192021
War Memorial
Chapel Church
of St Michael,
Chester Square
Belgravia,
London
192021
Rectory War
memorial tablet
and northern
Trefnant,
aisle screen,
Denbighshire
Holy Trinity
Church
1921
New church,
Ampleforth
Abbey
Gilling East,
Yorkshire
1922
Extensions to
Junior House,
Ampleforth
College
Gilling East,
Yorkshire
1920s!30s
Memorial Court,
Cambridge
Clare College
Nave and
monument to
Abbot Ramsay
Tower at the Cambridge University Library
not
completed
until 1961
William Booth Memorial Training College
192334
Downside
c. 192325
Abbey, Somerset
K2 Red
telephone box
1924
Reconstruction
of St George's
Church
Kidderminster,
Worcestershire
War memorial,
All Saints'
Church
Wigan,
Lancashire
after 1924
1925
Our Lady and St

Alphege Church Bath, Somerset
(RC)
c. 1927
Church of St
Alban and St
Michael
1925
Golders Green,
London
Guinness Brewery Park Royal, during

demolition
built 193233
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Chester House, Paddington,

Clarendon Place London
Charterhouse
School chapel
Godalming,
Surrey
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192526
his own home
1922;
completed the largest
and
war memorial
consecrated in England
1927
War memorial
(Market
Square), and
Preston,
municipal roll of Lancashire
honour in the
Harris Museum
192327;
completed
and
unveiled
1927
All Saints'
Church
Wallasey,
Cheshire
192739
uncompleted
Church of St
Michael
Ashford, Surrey
1928
uncompleted
Memorial
Chapel
Bromsgrove
School
Bromsgrove,
Worcestershire
192839
Bankside Power Station (now Tate
Modern), London, completed in 1963
Continuation of
the north range,
St Swithun's
Oxford
Buildings,
Magdalen
College
192830
William Booth
Camberwell,
Memorial
London
Training College
1929
St Ninian's
Church (RC)
Restalrig,
Edinburgh
1929
Church of Our
Lady and St
Alphege
Oldfield Park,
Bath
1929
St Francis of
Assisi Church
High Wycombe,
192930
Buckinghamshire
Whitelands
College
Wandsworth
uncompleted
192931
Plinth for statue

of Sir Joshua
Piccadilly,
Reynolds
London
Burlington
House
192931
Battersea Power
London
Station
192935
Saint Joseph's Church, Sheringham,

built between 1910 and 1936
A K6 telephone box, also designed by

Giles Gilbert Scott, in the Liverpool
Anglican cathedral
consultant on
exteriors
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North East
Tower, Our
Lady of Grace
and St Edward
Church (RC)
Chiswick,
London
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1930
K3 Red
telephone box
1930
Phoenix Theatre
Charing Cross
London
Road
1930
Altar, St
Augustine's
Kilburn, London 1930
St Columba's
Cathedral
Oban, Argyll
193053
Cropthorne
Court private
residences)
Maida Vale,
London
193037
with Bertie
Crewe
Apse and north

tower, Church of
Broadstairs, Kent 193031
Our Lady Star of
the Sea (RC)
Classroom
range, Gilling
Castle
Gilling East,
Yorkshire
after 1930
St Andrew's
Church
Luton
193132
Chapel and
college
Oxford
buildings, Lady
Margaret Hall
1931
New University
Cambridge
Library
193134
Whitelands
College, West
Hill
Putney, London
1931
Vincent House,
Vincent Square
Westminster
1932
consultant
Clergy House
High Wycombe,
for St Francis of
1933
Buckinghamshire
Assisi Church
Guinness
Brewery
Park Royal,
London
193335
Buildings in
north court,
Cambridge
1934
demolished
2006
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Trinity Hall
Font Church of
St Michael,
Chester Square
Belgravia,
London
Additions to St
Sheringham,
Joseph's Church
Norfolk
(RC)
1934
1934
Restoration of St
Etheldreda's
Holborn, London 1935
Church (RC),
Ely Place
Fountains
House, Park
Lane
London
K6 red
telephone box
193538
consultant
1935
Main Building,
University of
Southampton
Southampton,
Hampshire
1935
Private house,
22 Weymouth
Street
Marylebone,
London
1936
New Bodleian
Library
Oxford
193740
in association
with
Gutteridge
and
Gutteridge
Alterations to
Denham,
barn at Denham
1938
Buckinghamshire
Golf Club
Hartland House,
St Anne's
Oxford
College
1938
High pedestal
for King George
Westminster
V monument,
Old Palace Yard
1939
North and South

Blocks, County London
Hall
1939 and
195058
Waterloo Bridge London
193740
Kepier power
station
Durham
1940s
Chamber of the
House of
Commons
Westminster
194550
never built
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War memorial,
St John the
Baptist Church
Penshurst, Kent
1947
Forth Road
Bridge
Edinburgh
1947
consultant
Bankside Power
London
Station
1947,
now Tate
constructed Modern art
195760
gallery
Extension to St
Anne's College
Oxford
194951
Rye House
Power Station
Hoddesdon,
Hertfordshire
c. 1952
demolished
early 1990s
St Leonard's
Church
St Leonards-onSea, Sussex
195361
with his
brother
Adrian
Roof for the

bomb-damaged
Guildhall
City of London
195354
Extension at
Clare Memorial
Cambridge
Court Clare
College
195355
Our Lady of
Mount Carmel
Church (RC)
Kensington,
London
195459
St Anthony's
Church (RC)
Preston,
Lancashire
195459
Offices for the

City of London
Corporation
Guildhall
City of London
Chapel of
Trinity College
Toronto, Canada 1955
North Tees
Power Station
Billingham,
County Durham
St Mark's
Church
Biggin Hill,
London Borough 195759
of Bromley
195558
1950s
Church of Christ
Plymouth, Devon 196162
the King (RC)
alterations
and
refurbishment
proposed
demolished
built
posthumously
Notes and references

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Notes
1. ^ Scott's younger brother Adrian became a pupil of Moore at the same time. Their elder brother Sebastian chose a
medical career, and became, in Richard Gibert's Scott's phrase, an eminent radiologist.,[7] head of the radiology
department of the London Hospital from 1909 to 1930.[8]
2. ^ Some of Scott's contemporaries shared his view of the relative merits of his father and grandfather. In 1950 a
profile of Scott in The Observer called George Gilbert Scott, Jr. a much better architect than his more famous
father.[9] In 1960 The Guardian called the eldest Scott "the archaeological 'renovator' to whose devastating energy so
many of our cathedrals bear unhappy witness, while [George Gilbert Scott Jr.] was an architect of some
discrimination and taste".[10]
3. ^ The pipe-rack had been constructed to Scott's design by his sister.[17]
4. ^ At this time it was customary for architects to undertake ecclesiastical work only for the denomination to which
they belonged. When Bodley's partner Thomas Garner became a Roman Catholic in 1897, the partnership was
dissolved and Garner's church work was thereafter exclusively for the Roman Catholic church while Bodley worked
solely on Anglican churches.[5]
5. ^ These were for Washington, DC and San Francisco. The latter was not built.[12]
6. ^ The other two were Sir Robert Lorimer and Sir John Burnet.[32]
7. ^ Some rural communities were not impressed by the vivid red of Scott's design. A councillor in the Lake District
said , "red might be the best colour for London, but they did not want that colour of Hades brought into the Lake
District."[35]
8. ^ Scott was at pains to emphasise the limits of his contribution to the building and to ensure that due credit was given
to Pearce and to the architectural practice Halliday and Agate which was responsible for the interior.[36]
9. ^ The paper's architecture correspondent complained that the four chimneys looked like minarets "though very
beautiful minarets".[37]
References
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