Sir George Gilbert Scott - Restorations

Architect, born in Gawcott, Buckinghamshire, SC England, UK. He studied in London, and influenced by Pugin became the leading practical architect of the British Gothic revival, responsible for the building or restoration of many ecclesiastical and civil buildings, such as the Albert Memorial (1862–3), St Pancras Station and Hotel in London (1865), and Glasgow University (1865). He became professor of architecture at the Royal Academy in 1868, and was knighted in 1872.

Sir George Gilbert Scott (July 13, 1811 – March 27, 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.

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 constriction, the 'Midland Grand Hotel' at London's St Pancras Station, from which approach Scott believed a new style might emerge.

His sons George Gilbert Scott Junior and John Oldrid Scott and grandson, Giles Gilbert Scott, were also prominent architects. two lodge houses at Great Barr Hall, near Birmingham (pre-1863) All Souls church, Haley Hill, Halifax (1859) Brighton College, Sussex (1848-1866) Lanhydrock House, near Bodmin, Cornwall (1857), formal gardens assisted by Richard Coad St George's Minster, Doncaster (1858) - one of the country's best examples of Victorian Gothic architecture 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, Edvin Loach, Herefordshire (?1860). St Mary, Tedstone Delamere, Herefordshire Chancel (1856-7). St Michael, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire designed (1875) started (1881) by son John Oldrid Scott, never finished and partly demolished. St. Nikolai, Hamburg St Pancras Station, London (1865) St Peter, Bushley, Worcestershire. St Peter and St Paul, Priory Church Leominster, Herefordshire Quatrefoil piers (1872-9). St Peter's Church, Elworth, Cheshire. The Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin, Glasgow (1873) The Clarkson Memorial in Wisbech.

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).

Cathedrals include

Chichester Exeter Gloucester Hereford east side (1856-63) St Albans Wakefield

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 and St John's College, Cambridge. He also designed St Paul’s Cathedral, Dundee.