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Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March, 1878) was an English architect of the Victorian Age, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches, cathedrals and workhouses.
Born in Gawcott, Buckinghamshire, Scott was the son of a clergyman and grandson of the biblical commentator Thomas Scott. He studied architecture as a pupil of James Edmeston and, from 1832 to 1834, worked as an assistant to Henry Roberts. He also worked as an assistant for his friend Sampson Kempthorne.(External Link

) In about 1835, Scott took on William Bonython Moffatt as his assistant and later (1838-1845) as partner. Over the next 10 years Scott and Moffatt designed over 40 workhouses. A notable example was the Akroydon model housing scheme.
   Meanwhile, he was inspired by Augustus Pugin to join the Gothic revival of the Victorian era, his first notable work in this style being the Martyrs' Memorial on St Giles in Oxford (1841). Later, Scott went beyond copying mediaeval English gothic for his Victorian Gothic or Gothic Revival buildings, and began to introduce features from other styles and European countries as evidenced in his glorious Midland red-brick construction, the 'Midland Grand Hotel' at London's St Pancras Station, from which approach Scott believed a new style might emerge.
   Between 1864 and 1876, the Albert Memorial, designed by Scott, was constructed in Hyde Park. It was a commission on behalf of Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband, Prince Albert.
   Scott was awarded the RIBA's Royal Gold Medal in 1859. Knighted in 1872, he died in 1878 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
   His sons George Gilbert Scott Junior and John Oldrid Scott, and grandson Giles Gilbert Scott, were also prominent architects. He was also related to the architect Elisabeth Scott. Scott's grandfather was Thomas Scott (commentator).

His book

Recollections (London, 1879)

Designs

His projects include:

workhouses in Brackley, Kettering, Northampton, Oundle and Towcester (all in Northamptonshire), Billericay and Dunmow (Essex), Windsor (Berkshire), Boston (Lincolnshire), Amersham and Buckingham (Buckinghamshire), Williton (Somerset), Guildford (Surrey), Penzance and Redruth (Cornwall).

two lodge houses at Great Barr Hall, near Birmingham (pre-1863)

Holy Trinity Church, Hartshill, Stoke on Trent (1842)

School and Masters House,Hartshill, Stoke on Trent (1848)

Astbury School and Masters House Congleton (1848)

Workers Houses, Hartshill, Stoke on Trent (1842-48)

St Mark's Church, Worsley, Greater Manchester (1844-6)

All Saints church, Ryde, Isle of Wight (1872)

All Souls church, Haley Hill, Halifax (1859)

Brighton College, Sussex (1848-1866)

Clifton Hampden Bridge, Oxfordshire (1867)

Hafodunos, Llangernyw, North Wales (1861-1866)

Leeds General Infirmary

Lanhydrock House, near Bodmin, Cornwall (1857), formal gardens assisted by Richard Coad

St George's Minster, Doncaster (1858)

Hall Cross School's library in Doncaster

St James' Church, Cradley, Herefordshire Chancel (1868)

St John's Church, Eastnor, Herefordshire Church (1852) and Monument (1855).

The Cathedral of St John the Baptist in St John's, Newfoundland (1847)

St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal)

St Mary, Edvin Loach, Herefordshire (?1860).

St Mary, Hanwell, London W7 (1841).

St Mary The Virgin, Speldhurst Kent 1879

St Mary, Tedstone Delamere, Herefordshire Chancel (1856-7).

St Mary, Timsbury, Somerset

St Matthew's Church. Yiewsley, Hillingdon, 1859

St Michael, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire designed (1875) started (1881) by son John Oldrid Scott, never finished and partly demolished.

McManus Galleries - Formerly the Albert Institute, Dundee

St Nikolai, Hamburg

St Pancras Station, London (1865)

St Nicholas's, Newport, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.

St Peter, Bushley, Worcestershire. Roof (1856).

St Peter and St Paul, Priory Church Leominster, Herefordshire Quatrefoil piers (1872-9).

St Peter and St Paul, Buckingham Parish Church Buckingham, Buckinghamshire. Additions to the original 1777 church including chancel, buttresses, porch, roof and nave alterations (1862-1878). Work continued over the years by his second son John Oldrid Scott and grandson Charles Marriott Oldrid Scott.

St Peter's Church, Elworth, Cheshire.

St John The Baptist Church, Busbridge, Godalming, Surrey

Sandbach School, Sandbach, Cheshire.

Workers' housing at Akroydon, Halifax (1859)

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, London (1861-1868)

the Albert Memorial, London (1862); in the podium frieze, one of the images of architects, sculpted by John Birnie Philip shows Scott himself.

the main building of the new campus of the University of Glasgow (1870), often called the "Gilbert Scott Building" in his honour.

Towcester Union Workhouse

(1836)

The Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin, Glasgow (1873)

Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon (additions) (1875)

The Clarkson Memorial in Wisbech. Scott first put forward designs in 1875, but work didn't start until 1880. The eventual design was a slightly altered version of Scott's original design.

St Paul's Church, Fulney, Spalding, Lincolnshire (completed building 1880)

All Souls, Blackman Lane, Leeds (1879) - his last work, large lancet-style church

St Stephen's Church, Higham Green, Suffolk (1861)

St. Thomas of Canterbury Church, Chester (1872)

Walton Hall, Warwickshire (1858)

Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand

Restorations

Scott was involved in major restorations of medieval church architecture.

St Mary's Church, Nottingham (1850s)

St John the Baptist Church, Aconbury, Herefordshire Restoration (1863)

St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire Restoration of Norman and 13th century church (1858)

St John the Baptist Church, Upton Bishop, Herefordshire Restoration (1862)

St Leonard, Yarpole, Herefordshire Restoration of chancel(1864)

St Mary's Island church on the Orchardleigh Estate (1878)

St Peter's Church, Prestbury (1879-1881)

St Andrews Parish Church, Spratton,Northamptonshire Cathedrals include

Chichester

Ripon

Exeter

Gloucester

Hereford east side (1856-63)

St Albans

Wakefield

Chester Plus Bath Abbey, Pershore Abbey, Great Malvern Priory, St Margaret's, Westminster, St Mary's of Charity in Faversham, which was restored (and transformed, with an unusual spire and unexpected interior) by Scott in 1874, and Dundee Parish Church (St Mary's), and designed the chapels of Exeter College, Oxford, St John's College, Cambridge and King's College London. He also designed St Paul’s Cathedral, Dundee. Lichfield Cathedral's ornate West Front was extensively renovated by Scott from 1855 - 1878. He restored the Cathedral to the form he believed it took in the Middle Ages, working with original materials where possible and creating imitations when the originals were not available. It is recognised as some of his finest work.

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