Sir George
Gilbert Scott RA (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), styled
Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English
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Gothic revival architect,
chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of
churches and cathedrals, although he started his career as a leading
designer of workhouses. Over 800 buildings were designed or altered by
him.[1]
Scott was the architect of many iconic buildings, including the
Midland Grand Hotel

Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station, the Albert Memorial, and
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, all in London, St Mary's
Cathedral, Glasgow, the main building of the University of Glasgow, St
Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh and
King's College London

King's College London Chapel.
Contents
1 Life and career
1.1 Early work
1.2 Gothic Revival
2 Honours
3 Family
4 Pupils
5 Books
6 Architectural work
6.1 Public buildings
6.2 Domestic buildings
6.3 Church buildings
6.4 Restorations
6.4.1 Churches
6.4.2 Cathedrals
6.4.3 Abbeys, priories and collegiate churches
6.4.4 Other restoration work
7 Gallery of architectural work
8 See also
9 References
10 Sources
11 External links
Life and career[edit]
Born in Gawcott, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, Scott was the son of a
cleric 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, who specialised in the
design of workhouses,[2] a field in which Scott was to begin his
independent career.[3]
Early work[edit]
Parish Church of St John in Wall, Staffordshire
Scott's first work was built in 1833. It was a vicarage for his
father, a clergyman, in the village of Wappenham, Northamptonshire. It
replaced the previous vicarage occupied by other relatives of Scott.
Scott went on to design several other buildings in the
village.[citation needed]
In about 1835, Scott took on
William Bonython Moffatt as his assistant
and later (1838–1845) as his partner. Over ten years or so, Scott
and Moffatt designed more than forty workhouses,[citation needed]
during the boom in building such institutions brought about by the
Poor Law of 1834.[3] In 1837 they built the Parish Church of St John
in Wall, Staffordshire. At Reading, they built the prison (1841–42)
in a picturesque, castellated style.[4] Scott's first church, St
Nicholas', was built at Lincoln, after winning a competition in
1838.[3] With Moffat he built the Neo-Norman church of St Peter at
Norbiton, Surrey (1841).[5]
Gothic Revival[edit]
Nikolaikirche, Hamburg,
Germany

Germany (1845–80), bombed during World War
II and now a ruin
Meanwhile, he was inspired by
Augustus Pugin

Augustus Pugin to participate in the
Gothic revival.[3] While still in partnership with Moffat.[6] he
designed the
Martyrs' Memorial

Martyrs' Memorial on
St Giles', Oxford

St Giles', Oxford (1841),[7] and St
Giles' Church,
Camberwell

Camberwell (1844), both of which helped establish his
reputation within the movement.
Commemorating three Protestants burnt during the reign of Queen Mary,
the
Martyrs' Memorial

Martyrs' Memorial was intended as a rebuke to those very high
church tendencies which had been instrumental in promoting the new
authentic approach to Gothic architecture.[8] St Giles', was in plan,
with its long chancel, of the type advocated by the Ecclesiological
Society:
Charles Locke Eastlake

Charles Locke Eastlake said that "in the neighbourhood of
London no church of its time was considered in purer style or more
orthodox in its arrangement".[9] It did, however, like many churches
of the time, incorporate wooden galleries, not used in medieval
churches[10] and highly disapproved of by the high church
ecclesiological movement.
In 1844 he received the commission to rebuild the Nikolaikirche in
Hamburg (completed 1863), following an international competition.[11]
Scott's design had originally been placed third in the competition,
the winner being one in a Florentine inspired style by Gottfried
Semper, but the decision was overturned by a faction who favoured a
Gothic design.[12] Scott's entry had been the only design in the
Gothic style.[3]
In 1854 he remodelled the Camden Chapel in Camberwell, a project in
which the critic
John Ruskin

John Ruskin took a close interest and made many
suggestions. He added an apse, in a Byzantine style, integrating it to
the existing plain structure by substituting a waggon roof for the
existing flat ceiling.[13]
Scott was appointed architect to
Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey in 1849. In 1853 he
built a Gothic terraced block adjoining the abbey in Broad Sanctuary.
In 1858 he designed Christchurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand
which now lies partly ruined following the earthquake in 2011 and
subsequent attempts to demolish the cathedral by the Anglican Church
authorities. Demolition was blocked after appeals by the population of
Christchurch but the future of this historic building is still in
dispute [14][11]
The choir stalls at
Lancing College

Lancing College in Sussex, which Scott designed
with Walter Tower, were among many examples of his work that
incorporated green men.[15]
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
Midland red-brick construction, the
Midland Grand Hotel

Midland Grand Hotel at London's St
Pancras Station, from which approach Scott believed a new style might
emerge.[citation needed]
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 husband, Prince Albert.
Scott advocated the use of Gothic architecture for secular buildings,
rejecting what he called "the absurd supposition that Gothic
architecture is exclusively and intrinsically ecclesiastical."[10] He
was the winner of a competition to design new buildings in Whitehall
to house the Foreign Office and War Office. Before work began,
however, the administration which had approved his plans went out of
office. Palmerston, the new Prime Minister, objected to Scott's use of
the Gothic, and the architect, after some resistance drew up new plans
in a more acceptable style.[16]
Honours[edit]
Scott was awarded the RIBA's
Royal Gold Medal

Royal Gold Medal in 1859. He was
appointed an Honorary Liveryman of the
Turners' Company and in 1872,
he was knighted. He died in 1878 and is buried in
Westminster

Westminster Abbey.
A
London County Council

London County Council blue plaque marks Scott's residence at the
Admiral's House on Admiral's Walk in Hampstead.[17][18]
Family[edit]
Scott married Caroline Oldrid of Boston in 1838. Two of his sons
George Gilbert Scott, Jr.

George Gilbert Scott, Jr. and John Oldrid Scott, and his grandson
Giles Gilbert Scott, were also prominent architects.[19] His third
son, photographer, Albert Henry Scott (1844–65) died at the age of
twenty-one. George Gilbert designed his funerary monument in St
Peter's Church, Petersham.[20] His fifth and youngest son was the
botanist Dukinfield Henry Scott.[21] He was also great-uncle of the
architect Elisabeth Scott.[22]
Pupils[edit]
Scott's success attracted a large number of pupils, many would go on
to have successful careers of their own, not always as architects. In
the following list, the year next to the pupil's name denotes their
time in Scott's office, some of the more famous were: Hubert Austin
(1868),
Joseph Maltby Bignell

Joseph Maltby Bignell (1859–78), George Frederick Bodley
(1845–56),
Charles Buckeridge

Charles Buckeridge (1856–57),
Somers Clarke

Somers Clarke (1865),
William Henry Crossland

William Henry Crossland (dates uncertain), C. Hodgson Fowler
(1856–60), Thomas Gardner (1856–61), Thomas Graham Jackson
(1858–61), John T. Micklethwaite (1862–69), Benjamin Mountfort
(1841–46), John Norton (1870–78), George Gilbert Scott, Jr.
(1856–63),
John Oldrid Scott (1858–78), J. J. Stevenson
(1858–60), George Henry Stokes (1843–47), George Edmund Street
(1844–49), William White (1845–47).
Books[edit]
Remarks on secular & domestic architecture, present & future.
London: John Murray. 1857.
A Plea for the Faithful Restoration of our Ancient Churches. Oxford:
James Parker. 1859.
Gleanings from
Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey / by George Gilbert Scott, with
Appendices Supplying Further Particulars, and Completing the History
of the Abbey Buildings, by W. Burges (2nd enlarged ed.). Oxford: John
Henry and James Parker. 1863 [1861].
Personal and Professional Recollections. London:
Sampson Low

Sampson Low & Co.
1879.
Lectures on the Rise and Development of Medieval Architecture. I.
London: John Murray. 1879.
Lectures on the Rise and Development of Medieval Architecture. II.
London: John Murray. 1879. online texts for vols. I & II
Additionally he wrote over forty pamphlets and reports. As well as
publishing articles, letters, lectures and reports in The Builder, The
Ecclesiologist, The Building News, The British Architect, The Civil
Engineer's and Architect's Journal, The Illustrated London News, The
Times and Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Architectural work[edit]
Although he is best known for his
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Gothic revival churches, Scott felt
that the
Midland Grand Hotel

Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras station was his most
successful project.
His projects include:
Public buildings[edit]
Workhouse

Workhouse in Winslow,
Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (1835)
Workhouses (1836) in: Amesbury, Wiltshire; Buckingham,
Buckinghamshire; Kettering, Northamptonshire; Northampton,
Northamptonshire; Oundle, Northamptonshire; Tiverton, Devon; Totnes,
Devon; Towcester, Northamptonshire
Workhouse

Workhouse in Guildford, Surrey (1836–38)
Workhouses (1837) in: Bideford, Devon; Boston, Lincolnshire; Clutton,
Somerset; Flax Bourton, Somerset; Gloucester, Gloucestershire;
Liskeard, Cornwall; Newton Abbot, Devon; Hundleby, Lincolnshire;
Tavistock, Devon
The workhouse in Loughborough, Leicestershire (1837–38)
Workhouses (1838) in: Amersham, Buckinghamshire;[23] Belper,
Derbyshire; Great Dunmow, Essex; Lichfield, Staffordshire; Mere,
Wiltshire; Penzance, Cornwall; Redruth, Cornwall
Workhouse

Workhouse (1838) ; Williton, Somerset[24] and 'sister design'
Witham, Essex
Workhouses (1839) in: Billericay, Essex; Bedworth, Warwickshire;
Edmonton, London; Louth, Lincolnshire; Newcastle-under-Lyme,
Staffordshire; Old Windsor, Berkshire; St Austell, Cornwall;
Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
Buckingham

Buckingham Gaol extension and alterations (1839) in: Buckingham,
Buckinghamshire
The workhouse in Lutterworth, Leicestershire (1839–40)
School and Master's House, Hartshill,
Stoke on Trent

Stoke on Trent (1840)
Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanstead, Essex (1841–43)
Martyrs' Memorial,
Oxford

Oxford (1841–43)
Reading Gaol, Berkshire (1842–44)
Lunatic Asylum,
Shelton, Shropshire

Shelton, Shropshire (1843)
The workhouse, Macclesfield, Cheshire (1843)
Lunatic Asylum,
Clifton, York

Clifton, York (1845)
Lunatic Asylum,
Wells, Somerset

Wells, Somerset (1845)
Astbury School and Masters House Congleton (1848)
Christ Church School, Alsager, Cheshire (1848)[25]
Brighton

Brighton College, Sussex (1848–1866)
Sandbach

Sandbach School, Sandbach, Cheshire (1849)
School, Trefnant, Denbighshire (c. 1855)
School, Tysoe, Warwickshire (1856)
Sandbach

Sandbach Literary Institution (1857) Grade II Listed Building
Literary Institution,
Sandbach

Sandbach (1857)[26]
Crimea War Memorial,
Westminster

Westminster School, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster
(1858)
School,
Ashley, Northamptonshire

Ashley, Northamptonshire (1858)
The Vaughan Library, Harrow School, Middlesex (1861–63)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, London (1861–1868)
Preston Town Hall, Lancashire (1862–67), destroyed by fire in 1947
The University of Glasgow's main building (1870)
Old Schools,
Cambridge

Cambridge (1864–67)
Leeds General Infirmary

Leeds General Infirmary (1864–67)
the Albert Memorial, London (1864–72); in the podium frieze, one of
the images of architects, sculpted by
John Birnie Philip

John Birnie Philip shows Scott
himself.
Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras Station, London (1865)
McManus Galleries

McManus Galleries – formerly the Albert Institute, Dundee
(1865–69)
The School, Great Dunmow, Essex (1866)
Panoramic view of Brill's swimming bath, Brighton. Lithograph by J.
Drayton Wyatt
Brill Swimming Baths,
Brighton

Brighton (1866–69) demolished 1929
Clifton Hampden

Clifton Hampden Bridge, Oxfordshire (1867)
Hall Cross School's library in
Doncaster

Doncaster (1868)
Market Cross, Helmsley, Yorkshire (1869)
School Nocton, Lincolnshire (1869)
Extension Radcliffe Infirmary,
Oxford

Oxford (1869–71)
Cemetery Chapel, Ramsgate,
Kent
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Kent (1869–1872)[27]
Lincoln's Inn, London, Library extension (1870–72), New Chambers
Block A (1873) and New Chambers Block B (1876–78)
the main building of the new campus of the University of Glasgow
(1870), often called the "
Gilbert Scott Building"
Savernake Hospital, Wiltshire (1871–72)
Gatehouse to
Ramsgate

Ramsgate Cemetery,
Kent
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Kent (1872)[28]
The University Senate Hall, Bombay University (1869–74)
The University Library and Rajabai Clock Tower, Bombay University
(1869–78)
The
Clarkson Memorial

Clarkson Memorial in Wisbech. Scott first put forward designs in
1875, but work did not start until 1880. The eventual design was a
slightly altered version of Scott's original design.
Domestic buildings[edit]
Vicarage, Wappenham, Northamptonshire (1833)
16 High Street, Chesham,
Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (1835)
Vicarage, Dinton,
Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (1836)
Rectory, Weston Turville,
Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (1838)
Parsonage, Blakesley, Northamptonshire (1839)
Parsonage, Hartshill,
Stoke on Trent

Stoke on Trent (1840)
Seaman's Houses, Whitby, Yorkshire (1842)
Rectory, Teffont Evias, Wiltshire (1842)
Workers Houses, Hartshill,
Stoke on Trent

Stoke on Trent (1842–48)
Parsonage, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire (1843–46)
Parsonage, Barnet,
Hertford

Hertford (1845)
Parsonage, St. Mark's,
Swindon

Swindon (c. 1846)
Parsonage, Wembley, Middlesex (1846)
Parsonage,
Weeton, North Yorkshire

Weeton, North Yorkshire (c. 1852)
Houses Broad Sanctuary,
Westminster

Westminster (1852–54)
Parsonage, Trefnant, Denbighshire (c. 1855)
Parsonage, St. Mary's, Stoke Newington, London (c. 1855)
All Souls' Vicarage, Halifax, Yorkshire (c. 1856)
Cottages,
Ilam, Staffordshire

Ilam, Staffordshire (c. 1857)
Almshouses, Hartshill,
Stoke on Trent

Stoke on Trent (1857)
Lanhydrock House, near Bodmin, Cornwall (1857) an Elizabethan mansion
rebuilt after a fire, formal gardens assisted by Richard Coad
Parsonage, Kilkhampton, Cornwall (c. 1858)
Walton Hall, Warwickshire

Walton Hall, Warwickshire (1858)
Treverbyn Vean,
St Neot, Cornwall

St Neot, Cornwall (1858–62)
Parsonage,
Ashley, Northamptonshire

Ashley, Northamptonshire (1858)
Parsonage, Bridge,
Kent
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Kent (c. 1859)
Vicarage, Ranmore Common, Surrey (c. 1859)
Kelham

Kelham Hall, Nottinghamshire (1859–62)
Workers' housing at Akroydon, Halifax (1859)
Almshouses,
Sandbach

Sandbach (1860)[29]
Lee Priory, Littlebourne, Kent, alterations and additions (1860–63)
demolished
Rectory, Higham, Forest Heath, Suffolk (c. 1861)
Kingston Grange, Kingston St Mary, Somerset for Mr Perkins (c. 1861)
Parsonage, St. Andrew's,
Leicester

Leicester (c. 1861)
Hartland Abbey (c.1851) supervised by Richard Coad, built by Pulsman
of Barnstaple
Hafodunos, Llangernyw, North Wales (1861–1866)
Vicarage, Jarrom Street,
Leicester

Leicester (1862)[30]
Nos 1,3 & 3a Dean's Yard,
Westminster

Westminster (1862)
Parsonage, Leith, Midlothian (1862)
Brownsover Hall, Warwickshire, date uncertain (c. 1860)
Two lodge houses at Great Barr Hall, near
Birmingham

Birmingham (pre-1863)
The Master's House, St John's College,
Cambridge

Cambridge (1863)
Parsonage, Christ Church, Ottershaw, Surrey (c. 1864)
Parsonage, St. Luke's, Weaste, Lancashire (c. 1865)
Schools Master's House,
Ashley, Northamptonshire

Ashley, Northamptonshire (1865)
Almshouses, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire (1865)
Rectory, Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire (1868)
Vicarage, Higham Green, Suffolk
Parsonage, Mirfield, Yorkshire (1869)
Polwhele House, Truro, Cornwall, additions (c. 1870)
Vicarage, Hillesden,
Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (1871)
St Mary's Homes,
Godstone
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Godstone (1872)
Scott's Building, King's College,
Cambridge

Cambridge (1873)
Parsonage, St. Michael's, New Southgate, Middlesex (c. 1874)
Parsonage, St. Saviour's,
Leicester

Leicester (1875)
Parsonage, Fulney, Lincolnshire (1877–80)
New Court, Pembroke College,
Cambridge

Cambridge (1881)
Wanstead

Wanstead Infant Orphanage Asylum,
London Borough of Redbridge

London Borough of Redbridge (1841)
Church buildings[edit]
University of Cambridge, St John's College Chapel, by George Gilbert
Scott, 1866–1869
St Mark's Church, Ladywood (1840–41) (demolished 1947)
St Giles' Church, Camberwell, London (1841–44)
Christ Church, Bridlington (1840–41)
St Mary's Church, Hanwell, Middlesex (1841)[31]
Holy Trinity, Hulme (1841)
St Mary's Church,
Mirfield

Mirfield (1841)
Holy Trinity Church, Hartshill,
Stoke on Trent

Stoke on Trent (1842)
St John the Baptist's Church, St John's, Woking, Surrey (1842)
St. John the Baptist Church, Beeston, Nottinghamshire (1842)
St Peter's Church, Norbiton, Surrey (1842)
St. John the Baptist's Church, Leenside, Nottingham (1843–44)
Holy Trinity Church, Halstead, Essex (1843–44)
St John the Evangelist, West Meon, Hampshire (1843–46), squared
knapped flint work
St Mark's Church, Worsley, Greater Manchester (1844–46)
St Matthias, Malvern Link, Worcestershire (1844–46) [32]
St Mark's Church, Swindon, (1845)
St Nikolai, Hamburg (1845–80), the tallest building in the world
from 1874 to 1876.
The Cathedral of St John the Baptist in St John's, Newfoundland (1847,
construction overseen by apprentice William Hay)
St. Mary the Virgin, Aylesbury

St. Mary the Virgin, Aylesbury (1848)
St Gregory's Church,
Canterbury

Canterbury (1848)
St Paul's Church,
Canterbury

Canterbury (1848)
St Cwyfan, Tudweiliog, Gwynedd (1849)
St Peter's Church,
South Croydon

South Croydon (1851)
Emmanuel Church, Forest Gate, London (1852)
St John's Church,
Eastnor, Herefordshire

Eastnor, Herefordshire Church (1852) and Monument
(1855)[33]
All Saints Church, Watford, Hertfordshire (1853)
St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral,
Dundee

Dundee (1853)(Cathedral since 1905)
All Saints Church, Sherbourne, Warwick (1854)[34]
Christ Church, Lee Park,
Kent
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Kent (1854) (bombed 1941, demolished 1944)
St John the Evangelist, Shirley, Surrey (1854)
Holy Trinity Church, Coventry

Holy Trinity Church, Coventry (1854)
Chapel of Exeter College,
Oxford

Oxford (1854–60)
St John's Church, Bilton, Harrogate (1855)
St Mary, Hayes,
Kent
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Kent (alterations) (1856–62)
St Peter, Bushley, Worcestershire. Roof (1856)[35]
St Mary, Tedstone Delamere, Herefordshire
Chancel

Chancel (1856–57)[36]
St George's Minster,
Doncaster

Doncaster (1858)
St Mary New Church,
Stoke Newington

Stoke Newington (1858)[37]
St Matthias Church, Richmond, London (1858)
All Souls Church, Halifax

All Souls Church, Halifax (1859)
St. Thomas's Church, Huddersfield

St. Thomas's Church, Huddersfield (1859)
St Michael and All Angels Church, Leafield, Oxfordshire
(1859–60)[38]
St Matthew's Church, Stretton, Cheshire (1859 and 1867)
St Matthew's Church. Yiewsley,
Hillingdon

Hillingdon (1859)
St Mary, Edvin Loach, Herefordshire (?1860)[39]
Christ Church, Wanstead, Essex (1861)
St Stephen's Church, Higham Green, Suffolk (1861)
St. John the Evangelist,
Sandbach

Sandbach Heath (1861)[40]
St Andrews, Jarrom Street,
Leicester

Leicester (1862)[41][42][43]
The
Hereford Screen

Hereford Screen (1862), choir screen from Hereford Cathedral, now
restored and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Chapel of
Wellington College, Berkshire

Wellington College, Berkshire (1861-3)[44]
All Saints Church, Langton Green,
Kent
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Kent (1862–63)[45]
St Andrew's Hospital Chapel,
Northampton

Northampton (1863)
St Andrew's Church, Derby

St Andrew's Church, Derby (1864–67)[46]
St Andrew's Church,
Uxbridge

Uxbridge (1865)
St John the Baptist, Penshurst

St John the Baptist, Penshurst (1865)
St Luke's Church, Pendleton

St Luke's Church, Pendleton (1865)[47]
St Stephen & St Mark, Lewisham (1865) [48]
St Mary's Church, Shackleford, Surrey (1865)
St Denys Church, Southampton (1868)
St Stephen's Church, Higham Green, Suffolk (1868)
St James' Church,
Cradley, Herefordshire

Cradley, Herefordshire
Chancel

Chancel (1868)[49]
St Peter's Church, Edensor,
Derbyshire

Derbyshire (1867–70)
All Saints church, Ryde, Isle of Wight (1872)
St. Thomas of Canterbury Church, Chester

St. Thomas of Canterbury Church, Chester (1872)[50]
St Peter and St Paul, Priory Church Leominster, Herefordshire
Quatrefoil piers (1872–79).[51]
The Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin, Glasgow (1873)[52]
Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon

Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon (additions) (1875)
St Saviour's Church,
Leicester

Leicester (1875–77)
All Souls, Blackman Lane,
Leeds

Leeds (1879) – his last work, a large
lancet-style church
St Mary The Virgin,
Speldhurst

Speldhurst
Kent
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Kent (1879)
St. Michael and St. George Cathedral,
Grahamstown

Grahamstown (tower and spire
completed in 1879)
St Paul's Church, Low Fulney,
Spalding, Lincolnshire

Spalding, Lincolnshire (completed
1880)[53]
ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand
The chapel of St John's College,
Cambridge

Cambridge is characteristic of
Scott's many church designs
St John The Baptist Church, Busbridge, Godalming, Surrey
St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal)
St Mary's Church, Mirfield, West Yorkshire
St Mary, Timsbury, Somerset[54]
St Michael, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire designed (1875)
started (1881) by son John Oldrid Scott, never finished and partly
demolished.[55]
St Nicholas's, Newport, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
St Peter's Church, Elworth, Cheshire.
Christ The Saviour, Ealing, London
Christ Church, Ramsgate, Kent
Christ Church, Swindon, Wiltshire
Ramsgate

Ramsgate Cemetery Chapel,
Kent
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Kent (1869)[56]
St Mary's Church, West Derby, Liverpool

St Mary's Church, West Derby, Liverpool (1853–6)
All Saints Church, Hawkhurst,
Kent
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Kent (1861)
Restorations[edit]
Churches[edit]
Scott was involved in major restorations of medieval church
architecture, all across England.
Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield, West Yorkshire (1842)
Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield,
Derbyshire

Derbyshire (1843)
St Mary's Church,
Sandbach

Sandbach (1847)[57]
St. Mary's Church, Temple Balsall, Solihull, West Midlands (1849)
St. John the Baptist Church Glastonbury, Somerset (1850s)[58]
St. Mary's Church, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (1850s)
Church of St Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire (1850s)
Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire (1850s)
St Mary's Church, Bishopsbourne,
Kent
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Kent (1871)[59]
All Saints' Church, Oakham

All Saints' Church, Oakham (1857–1858)
St John the Baptist Church, Aconbury, Herefordshire (1863)[60]
St Paul (Without the Walls) Church, Canterbury,
Kent
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Kent (1860s)
Church of St John the Baptist, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire (1858)[61]
St Mary Magdelene, Duns Tew, Oxfordshire (1861–62)
St Mary's Church, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire (1861–63)
St Helen's Church, Welton, East Riding of Yorkshire (1862–63)
St Peter and St Paul,
Buckingham

Buckingham Church Buckingham, (1862–1878),
additions to the original 1780 church including chancel, buttresses,
porch, roof and nave alterations. Work continued over the years by his
second son
John Oldrid Scott and grandson Charles Marriott Oldrid
Scott.[62]
St John the Baptist Church, Upton Bishop, Herefordshire (1862)[63]
St Leonard, Yarpole, Herefordshire, restoration of chancel(1864)[64]
St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, Lincolnshire (1866–75)
St Mary Abbots, Kensington, London (1872)
All Saints' Church,
Hillesden

Hillesden
Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (1874–75)
St. Margaret's Church, King's Lynn (1875)
St. Margaret's, Westminster, London (1877–78)
St Mary's Island church on the Orchardleigh Estate, Somerset
(1878)[65]
St Peter's Church, Prestbury, Cheshire (1879–1881)
St Barnabas' Church, Bromborough, Merseyside (1862-1864)
St Andrews Parish Church, Spratton, Northamptonshire
Church of St Mary the Less, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
The West Front of
Lichfield

Lichfield Cathedral
Cathedrals[edit]
Ely Cathedral

Ely Cathedral (1847–78)
Gloucester

Gloucester Cathedral (1854–76)
Peterborough Cathedral

Peterborough Cathedral (1855–60)
Coventry Cathedral

Coventry Cathedral (1855–57)
Hereford Cathedral

Hereford Cathedral east side (1855–63)
Lichfield

Lichfield Cathedral (1855–61 & 1877–81)
Wakefield Cathedral

Wakefield Cathedral (1858–60, 1865–69 and 1872–74)
Durham Cathedral

Durham Cathedral (1859 and 1874–76)
Brecon Cathedral

Brecon Cathedral (1860–62 & 1872–75)
Canterbury

Canterbury Cathedral (1860 & 1877–80)
Chichester Cathedral

Chichester Cathedral (1861–67 & 1872)
Ripon Cathedral

Ripon Cathedral (1862–72)
St Edmundsbury Cathedral

St Edmundsbury Cathedral (1863–64 & 1867–69)
Worcester Cathedral

Worcester Cathedral (1863–64, 1868 & 1874)
St David's Cathedral, St Davids, Wales (1864–76)
Salisbury Cathedral

Salisbury Cathedral (1865–71)
St Asaph Cathedral

St Asaph Cathedral (1866–69 & 1871)
Newcastle Cathedral

Newcastle Cathedral (1867–71 & 1872–76)
Chester Cathedral

Chester Cathedral (1868–75)
Exeter Cathedral

Exeter Cathedral (1869–70)
Christ Church,
Oxford

Oxford east wall of choir (1870–72 & 1874–76)
Rochester Cathedral

Rochester Cathedral (1871–74)
St Albans Cathedral

St Albans Cathedral (1871–80)
Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral (c. 1872)
Winchester Cathedral

Winchester Cathedral (1875)
Additionally Scott designed the Mason and Dixon monument in York
Minster (1860), prepared plans for the restoration of Bristol
Cathedral in 1859 and
Norwich Cathedral

Norwich Cathedral in 1860 neither of which
resulted in a commission, and designed a pulpit for Lincoln Cathedral
in 1863.
Abbeys, priories and collegiate churches[edit]
St Mary's Church, Stafford, 1842–45
Beverley Minster

Beverley Minster 1844, 1866–68, 1877
Westminster

Westminster Abbey, 1848–78
Dorchester Abbey, 1858, 1862, 1874
King's College, Cambridge, 1859–63, 1875
Bath Abbey, 1860–77
Pershore Abbey, 1861–64, 1867
St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, 1863
Great Malvern Priory, c. 1864
Boxgrove Priory, 1864–67
Priory Church, Leominster, 1864–66, 1876–78
Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, 1865–66
Selby Abbey, 1872–74
Tewkesbury Abbey, 1874–79
Bridlington Priory, 1875–80
Other restoration work[edit]
Scott restored the Inner Gateway (also known as the Abbey Gateway) of
Reading Abbey

Reading Abbey in 1860 – 1861 after its partial collapse.[66] 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

Dundee Parish Church, and designed the chapels of Exeter College,
Oxford, St John's College,
Cambridge

Cambridge and King's College London. He
also designed St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee.
Lichfield

Lichfield Cathedral's ornate West Front was extensively renovated by
Scott from 1855 to 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[who?] as some of his finest work.
Gallery of architectural work[edit]
Work house, Louth Lincolnshire (1839)
St. Mary's Hanwell, Middlesex (1841)
East end, St. Mary's Hanwell, Middlesex (1841)
Martyrs' Memorial,
Oxford

Oxford (1841–43)
St. Giles Church,
Camberwell

Camberwell (1842–44)
Reading Gaol, Berkshire (1842–44)
Holy Trinity Church, Halstead, Essex (1843–44)
St Martin's Zeal, Wiltshire (1845–46)
Nikolaikirche, Hamburg,
Germany

Germany (1845–80), bombed during World War
II and now a ruin
Cathedral of St.John's, Newfoundland, Canada (1847-1905)
Cathedral of St.John's, Newfoundland, Canada (1847-1905)
St. Peter's Church, Croydon (1849–51)
St. Anne's Alderney (c.1850)
St. Barnabas's Church,
Weeton, North Yorkshire

Weeton, North Yorkshire (1852)
St. George's Church, Doncaster, Yorkshire (1853–58)
St. George's Church, Doncaster, Yorkshire (1853–58)
Lichfield

Lichfield Cathedral, as restored and with fittings by Scott
(1855–61) & (1877–81)
All Souls', Haley Hill, Halifax (1856–59)
Interior looking east, All Souls', Haley Hill, Halifax, Yorkshire
(1856–59)
Cottages,
Ilam, Staffordshire

Ilam, Staffordshire (c.1871)
Chapel door, Exeter College,
Oxford

Oxford (1857–59)
East end, Chapel, Exeter College,
Oxford

Oxford (1857–59)
Kelham

Kelham Hall, Nottinghamshire (1858–62)
Crimea War Memorial,
Westminster

Westminster School, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster
(1858)
Walton Hall, Warwickshire

Walton Hall, Warwickshire (c.1858-62)
St. Mary's, Edwin Loach, Herefordshire (c.1859)
The Chapel,
Brighton College

Brighton College (1859)
All Saints,
Nocton

Nocton (1860–63)
SS. Peter and Paul Church, Buckingham, heavily restored (1860–67)
Nave

Nave Vault,
Bath Abbey

Bath Abbey (1860–77) (copy of the medieval vault in the
chancel)
The Chapel,
King's College London

King's College London (1861–62)
Christ Church, Southgate, London (1861–62)
Vaughan Library, Harrow School, London (1861–63)
Screen from
Hereford Cathedral

Hereford Cathedral (1862) now in the Victoria and Albert
Museum
All Saints' Church, Sherbourne, Warwickshire (1862–64)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London (1862–75)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London (1862–75)
Grand Staircase, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London (1862–75)
Ceiling, Grand Staircase, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London
(1862–75)
Looking east, St. John's College Chapel,
Cambridge

Cambridge (1863–69)
Clifton Hampden

Clifton Hampden Bridge, Oxfordshire (1864)
Leeds General Infirmary

Leeds General Infirmary (1864–70)
St. David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, showing Scott's west front
(1864–76)
Albert Memorial, London (1864–76)
Central ciborium, Albert Memorial, London (1864–76)
Christchurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand (1864-1904)
St. Mary's Church, Norney, Shackleford, Surrey (1865)
Former Albert Institute
Dundee

Dundee (1865–69)
St Luke's church, Salford (1865)
Former Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras Station (1866–76)
Roof scape, Former Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras Station
(1866–76)
Former Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras Station (1866–76)
Detail of decoration in the Train Shed, St. Pancras Station
(1866–76)
Clock Tower, Former Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras Station
(1866–76)
Reredos high altar,
Worcester Cathedral

Worcester Cathedral (1867–68)
University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow (1867–70), the spire was added after Scott's
death by his son John Oldrid Scott
Highclere

Highclere Church, Hampshire (1869–70)
Brownsover Hall, Warwickshire (c.1870)
St Mary Abbots

St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington (1870–72)
Design for Reichstag, Berlin, not executed (1872)
Pulpit,
Worcester Cathedral

Worcester Cathedral (1873–74)
West front, St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (1874–80)
East front, St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (1874–80)
Grahamstown

Grahamstown Cathedral, South Africa (1874–78) & finished (1893)
Hall, Bombay University, India (1876)
Clarkson Memorial, Wisbech, (1880–82)
New Court, Pembroke College,
Cambridge

Cambridge (1881)
St Barnabas' Church, Bromborough, Merseyside (1862–64)
See also[edit]
List of works by George Gilbert Scott
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^ Cole, 1980, p. 1.
^ "George
Gilbert Scott (1811–1878) and William Bonython Moffatt
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^ Hitchcock 1977, p.146
^ Cherry and Pevsner 1990, p.313
^ Hitchcock 1977, p.152
^ Eastlake 1872, p.219
^ Whiting, R. C. (1993).
Oxford

Oxford Studies in the History of a University
Town Since 1800. Manchester University Press. p. 56.
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^ Eastlake 1872, p.220
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^ a b Hitchcock 1977, p.153
^ Mallgrave, Harry Francis (2005). Modern Architectural Theory: A
Historical Survey, 1673–1968.
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^ Hayman, Richard (April 2010). "Ballad of the Green Man". History
Today. 60 (4).
^ Eastlake 1872, pp.311– 2
^ "SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811–1878)". English Heritage.
Retrieved 9 January 2012.
^ "Sir George Gilbert Scott". Flickr.
^ Allinson, Kenneth (24 September 2008). Architects and Architecture
of London. Routledge. p. 164. ISBN 9781136429644.
^ Historic England. "Tomb of Albert Henry Scott in the Churchyard of
St Peter's Church (1380183)". National Heritage List for England.
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Oxford

Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography

Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford
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UK public library membership required.)
^ Stamp, Gavin (2004). "Scott, Elisabeth Whitworth (1898–1972),
architect".
Oxford

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Dictionary of National Biography

Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.).
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Workhouse

Workhouse in Williton, Somerset".
www.workhouses.org.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
^ Sutton, James C, ed. (1999).
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Sandbach", 1890, (page 86)
^ "Cemetery Chapels, Ramsgate". www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk.
Retrieved 21 February 2014.
^ "Gate House to Cemetery About 50 Metres South of Cemetery Chapel,
with Side Walls, Ramsgate". www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk.
Retrieved 21 February 2014.
^ "
Sandbach

Sandbach Almshouses Foundation Plaque", Commons
^ "Vicarage, Jarrom Street". Flickr.
^ Reynolds, Susan, ed. (1962). A History of the County of Middlesex:
Volume 3: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston
and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford,
Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington. Victoria County History.
pp. 230–33. Retrieved 21 July 2007.
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^ Pevsner, 1963, pages 122–123
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^ Pevsner, 1968, page 113
^ Pevsner, 1963, page 299
^ Weinreb, Ben, and Hibbert, Christopher (1992). The London
Encyclopaedia (reprint ed.). Macmillan. p. 610. CS1 maint:
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^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 682
^ Pevsner, 1963, page 126
^ John Parsons Earwaker, "The History of the Ancient Parish of
Sandbach", 1890, (page 87)
^ "
Leicester

Leicester St Andrew - Learn - FamilySearch.org".
familysearch.org.
^ "Error". leicester.gov.uk.
^ "A Church on Jarrom Street: St Andrew's ,Leicester".
www.kairos-press.co.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
^ "Chapel At Wellington College With Porch Colonnade And Gateway
Adjoining West End". Historic England. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1240546)".
National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
^ "St Andrew's Church, London Road, Litchurch". Derby Mercury.
England. 30 March 1864. Retrieved 4 June 2017 – via British
Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1386145)".
National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
^ "Lewisham, St Stephen with St Mark - East Lewisham Deanery - The
Diocese of Southwark". anglican.org. Archived from the original on 13
May 2014.
^ Pevsner, 1963, page 106
^ A short history of our church building by Ian Thomas (Parish
Magazine September 2010)
^ Pevsner, 1963, page 226
^ "St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral Glasgow". Glasgow Architecture.
Retrieved 31 August 2012.
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Ayscoughfee Hall

Ayscoughfee Hall Museum, Spalding for further information
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September 2007.
^ Pevsner, 1968, page 271
^ "Cemetery Chapels, Ramsgate". www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk.
Retrieved 15 April 2013.
^ John Parsons Earwaker, "The History of the Ancient Parish of
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^ "The Building - Description - St John's Church, Glastonbury".
www.stjohns-glastonbury.org.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
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February 2018.
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^ Pevsner, 1968, page 109
^ Clarke, John (1984). The Book of Buckingham. Buckingham: Barracuda
Books. p. 145. ISBN 0-86023-072-4.
^ Pevsner, 1963, page 304
^ Pevsner, 1963, page 327
^ "Church of St. Mary, causeway bridge, and gates". Images of England.
Retrieved 20 November 2007.
^ Tyack, Bradley and Pevsner, Geoffrey, Simon and Nikolaus (2010). The
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Sources[edit]
Bayley, Stephen (1983). The
Albert Memorial

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External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to George Gilbert Scott.
Wikisource

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article
Scott, Sir George Gilbert.
"Scott, George Gilbert". Dictionary of National Biography.
London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
"Sir George Gilbert Scott". Metalwork. Victoria and Albert Museum.
Archived from the original on 21 June 2008. Retrieved 18 August
2007.
"George Gilbert Scott's workhouse designs". The Workhouse. The
Workhouse. Retrieved 9 September 2008.
St Johns Church Bromsgrove
Sir George Gilbert Scott, the unsung hero of British architecture
Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
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