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at Spring Gardens, London. Moffatt was the son of a small builder and pupil of

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. He was originally taken on by Scott to assist with drawings, and then as site architect on four

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s. Moffatt died in 1887 at

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, Cornwall aged 75. He was buried at

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Church,

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References

Peter Higginbotham's website on Workhouses
*Directory of British Architects 1834–1900, comp. A. Felstead, J. Franklin and L. Pinfield (R.I.B.A., 1993) 1812 births 1887 deaths 19th-century English architects Gothic Revival architects Burials in Cornwall {{UK-architect-stub