George Gilbert Scott
Sir George Gilbert Scott RA (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), largely known as Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English 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]
For other people named Gilbert Scott, see Gilbert Scott.
Sir George Gilbert Scott
13 July 1811
27 March 1878 (aged 66)
Architect
Royal Gold Medal (1859)
Wakefield Cathedral
Albert Memorial
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Midland Grand Hotel
St Pancras railway station
Main building of the University of Glasgow
St Nicholas Church, Hamburg
St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow
St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal)
King's College Chapel, London
Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum
Scott was the architect of many notable buildings, including the 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 Chapel, London.
Family[edit]
Scott married Caroline Oldrid of Boston in 1838. Two of his sons George Gilbert Scott, Jr. (founder of Watts & Company in 1874) and John Oldrid Scott, and his grandson Giles Gilbert Scott, were also prominent architects.[32] 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, whilst he was living at The Manor House at Ham in Richmond.[33] His fifth and youngest son was the botanist Dukinfield Henry Scott.[34] He was also great-uncle of the architect Elisabeth Scott.[35]
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.
St Mary's Hanwell, Middlesex (1841)
East end, St Mary's Hanwell, Middlesex (1841)
Martyrs' Memorial, Oxford (1841–43)
St Giles Church, Camberwell (1842–44)
Reading Gaol, Berkshire (1842–44)
Cathedral of St John, Newfoundland, Canada (1847–1905)
Cathedral of St John, Newfoundland, Canada (1847–1905)
St Peter's Church, Croydon (1849–51)
St Anne's Alderney (c. 1850)
St Barnabas's Church, Weeton, North Yorkshire (1852)
St George's Church, Doncaster, Yorkshire (1853–58)
St George's Church, Doncaster, Yorkshire (1853–58)
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 (c.1871)
Chapel door, Exeter College, Oxford (1857–59)
East end, Chapel, Exeter College, Oxford (1857–59)
Kelham Hall, Nottinghamshire (1858–62)
Crimea War Memorial, Westminster School, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster (1858)
Walton Hall, Warwickshire (c.1858–62)
St Mary's, Edwin Loach, Herefordshire (c.1859)
The Chapel, Brighton College (1859)
All Saints, Nocton (1860–63)
SS. Peter and Paul Church, Buckingham, heavily restored (1860–67)
Nave Vault, Bath Abbey (1860–77) (copy of the medieval vault in the chancel)
Christ Church, Southgate, London (1861–62)
Vaughan Library, Harrow School, London (1861–63)
All Saints' Church, Sherbourne, Warwickshire (1862–64)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London (1862–75)
Grand Staircase, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London (1862–75)
Looking east, St John's College Chapel, Cambridge (1863–69)
Clifton Hampden Bridge, Oxfordshire (1864)
Leeds General Infirmary (1864–70)
St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, showing Scott's west front (1864–76)
Albert Memorial, London (1864–76)
ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand (1864–1904)
St Mary's Church, Norney, Shackleford, Surrey (1865)
Former Albert Institute Dundee (1865–69)
St Luke's church, Salford (1865)
Former Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras Station (1866–76)
Detail of decoration in the Train Shed, St Pancras Station (1866–76)
Reredos high altar, Worcester Cathedral (1867–68)
Brownsover Hall, Warwickshire (c.1870)
Design for Reichstag, Berlin, not executed (1872)
Pulpit, Worcester Cathedral (1873–74)
West front, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (1874–80)
East front, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (1874–80)
Grahamstown Cathedral, South Africa (1874–78) & finished (1893)
New Court, Pembroke College, Cambridge (1881)
