Giles Gilbert Scott

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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] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Gilbert_Scott

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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 (1874–77; 1880s–93) 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] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Gilbert_Scott

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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

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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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Gilbert_Scott

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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, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Gilbert_Scott

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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

1896–97

designed by Temple Moore with Scott as clerk of works

1903–60

completed posthumously in 1978

Nanfans (private Prestwood, 1903 house) Buckinghamshire Chapel in London Road

Harrow, London 1905–06

Church of the Annunciation (RC)

Bournemouth, Dorset

1906

Church of the Holy Ghost

Midsomer 1907–13 Norton, Somerset

Nave seating, All Saints'

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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)

1909–12

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.

1910–36

1911–13

cloisters, east window of refectory, rood in the crossing

1913–15

Church of Our Lady of the Assumption (RC)

Northfleet, Kent 1913–16

Lady Chapel reredos, St Michael's Church (RC)

Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne

Clare Memorial Court

1914

Rood Beam, St Hawarden, Deiniol's Church Flintshire

1915–16

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

1919–20

War memorial, St Saviour's Church

Oxton, Birkenhead, Cheshire

1920

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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

1920–21

War Memorial Chapel Church of St Michael, Chester Square

Belgravia, London

1920–21

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

1923–34

Downside c. 1923–25 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

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Guinness Brewery Park Royal, during demolition

built 1932–33

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Chester House, Paddington, Clarendon Place London Charterhouse School chapel

Godalming, Surrey

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1925–26

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

1923–27; completed and unveiled 1927

All Saints' Church

Wallasey, Cheshire

1927–39

uncompleted

Church of St Michael

Ashford, Surrey

1928

uncompleted

Memorial Chapel Bromsgrove School

Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

1928–39 Bankside Power Station (now Tate Modern), London, completed in 1963

Continuation of the north range, St Swithun's Oxford Buildings, Magdalen College

1928–30

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, 1929–30 Buckinghamshire

Whitelands College

Wandsworth

uncompleted

1929–31

Plinth for statue of Sir Joshua Piccadilly, Reynolds London Burlington House

1929–31

Battersea Power London Station

1929–35

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Saint Joseph's Church, Sheringham, built between 1910 and 1936

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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

1930–53

Cropthorne Court private residences)

Maida Vale, London

1930–37

with Bertie Crewe

Apse and north tower, Church of Broadstairs, Kent 1930–31 Our Lady Star of the Sea (RC) Classroom range, Gilling Castle

Gilling East, Yorkshire

after 1930

St Andrew's Church

Luton

1931–32

Chapel and college Oxford buildings, Lady Margaret Hall

1931

New University Cambridge Library

1931–34

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

1933–35

Buildings in north court,

Cambridge

1934

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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

1935–38

consultant

1935

Main Building, University of Southampton

Southampton, Hampshire

1935

Private house, 22 Weymouth Street

Marylebone, London

1936

New Bodleian Library

Oxford

1937–40

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 1950–58

Waterloo Bridge London

1937–40

Kepier power station

Durham

1940s

Chamber of the House of Commons

Westminster

1945–50

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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 1957–60 gallery

Extension to St Anne's College

Oxford

1949–51

Rye House Power Station

Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire

c. 1952

demolished early 1990s

St Leonard's Church

St Leonards-onSea, Sussex

1953–61

with his brother Adrian

Roof for the bomb-damaged Guildhall

City of London

1953–54

Extension at Clare Memorial Cambridge Court Clare College

1953–55

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (RC)

Kensington, London

1954–59

St Anthony's Church (RC)

Preston, Lancashire

1954–59

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 1957–59 of Bromley

1955–58

1950s

Church of Christ Plymouth, Devon 1961–62 the King (RC)

alterations and refurbishment proposed

demolished

built posthumously

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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 1. ^ a b c d e Butler, A. S. G. "Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert" (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/olddnb/35987), Dictionary of National Biography Archive, Oxford University Press, accessed 22 June 2012 (subscription required) 2. ^ Stamp, Gavin. "Scott, Sir George Gilbert (1811–1878)" (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24869), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University press, accessed 21 June 2012 (subscription required) 3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Stamp, Gavin. "Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert (1880–1960)" (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35987), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 21 June 2012 (subscription required) 4. ^ a b Scott, p. 3 5. ^ a b c d e f Thomas, John. "The 'Beginnings of a Noble Pile': Liverpool Cathedral's Lady Chapel (1904–10)" (http://www.jstor.org/stable/40033841), Architectural History , Vol. 48, (2005), pp. 257–290 6. ^ Scott, pp. 1–2 7. ^ Scott, p. 2 8. ^ "Radiology Department of the London Hospital" (http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail? coll_id=3922&inst_id=23&nv1=search&nv2=), Archives in London, accessed 24 June 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Gilbert_Scott

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9. ^ "Profile – Giles Gilbert Scott", The Observer, 29 October 1950, p. 2 10. ^ "Sir Giles Gilbert Scott", The Guardian, 10 February 1960, p. 2 11. ^ Cotton, p 3 12. ^ a b Hall, Michael. "Bodley, George Frederick (1827–1907)", (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31944) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 2 October 2011 (subscription required)

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