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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott

Scott in 1924 at the time of the consecration of

LiverpoolCathedral

Born 9 November 1880

Hampstead, Middlesex, England

Died 8 February1960 (aged 79)

Bloomsbury, Greater London,

England

Nationality United Kingdom

Alma mater Beaumont College

Buildings Battersea Power Station, Liverpool

Cathedral, House of Commons

Giles Gilbert ScottFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

SirGilesGilbert Scott, OM (9 November 1880 8

February 1960) was an English architect known for his

work on such structures asLiverpool Cathedral, Waterloo

Bridge and Battersea Power Station and designing theiconic red telephone box.

Scott came from a family of architects. He was noted for

his blending of Gothic tradition with modernism, making

what might have been functionally designed buildings into

popular landmarks.

Contents

1 Life and career

1.1 Early years

1.2 Liverpool Cathedral

1.3 Other early work

1.4 1920s

1.5 1930s

1.6 1940s

1.7 Last years

1.8 Burial & Grave

1.9 Family

2 Works

3 Notesand references

4 Sources

5 External links

Life and career

Early years

Born in Hampstead, London, Scott was one of six children and the third son of George Gilbert Scott, Jr. and

his wife, Ellen King Samson.[1]His father was an architect, the son of Sir George Gilbert Scott, a more

famous architect, known for designing the Albert Memorial and the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras

Station.[2]
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When Scott was three, his father was declared to be of unsound mind and was temporarily confined to a

hospital. Consequently his sons saw little of him. Giles later said that he remembered seeing his father only

twice. A bequest from an uncle in 1889 gave the young Scott ownership of Hollis Street Farm, near Ninfield,

Sussex, with a life tenancy to his mother.[3]During the week Ellen Scott and her three sons lived in a flat in

Battersea, spending weekends and holidays at the farm.[4]She regularly took them on bicycling trips to

sketch buildings in the area, and encouraged them to take an interest in architecture.[5]Among the buildings

the young Scott drew were Battle Abbey, Brede Place and Etchingham Church; Scott's son, Richard Gilbert

Scott, suggests that the last, with its solid central tower "was perhaps the germ of Liverpool Cathedral".[4]

Scott and his brothers were raised as Roman Catholics; their father was a Catholic convert. Giles attended

Beaumont College on the recommendation of his father who admired the buildings of its preparatory school,

the work of J.F.Bentley.[6]In January 1899 Scott became an articled pupil in the office of Temple Moore,

who had studied with Scott's father.[n 1]From Moore, or Ellen Scott, or from his father's former assistant P.

B. Freeman, Scott got to know the work of his father.[5]In a 2005 study of Scott's work, John Thomas

observes that Scott senior's "important church of St Agnes, Kennington (187477; 1880s93) clearlyinfluenced Giles's early work, including Liverpool Cathedral Lady Chapel."[5]

In later years Scott remarked to John Betjeman, "I always think that my father was a genius. He was a far

better architect than my grandfather and yet look at the reputations of the two men!"[3][n 2]Scott's father and

his grandfather had been exponents of High Victorian Gothic; Scott, when still a young man, saw the

possibility of designing in Gothic without the profusion of detail that marked their work.[1]He had an

unusually free hand in working out his ideas, as Moore generally worked at home, leaving Freeman to run

the office.[3]

Liverpool Cathedral

In 1901, while Scott was still a pupil in Moore's practice, the diocese of Liverpool announced a competition

to select the architect of a new cathedral. Two well-known architects were appointed as assessors for an

open competition for architects wishing to be considered.[11]G. F. Bodley was a leading exponent of the

Gothic revival style, and a former pupil and relative by marriage of Scott's grandfather.[12]R. Norman Shaw

was an eclectic architect, having begun in the Gothic style, and later favouring what his biographer Andrew

Saint calls "full-blooded classical or imperial architecture".[13]Architects were invited by public

advertisement to submit portfolios of their work for consideration by Bodley and Shaw. From these, the two

assessors selected a first shortlist of architects to be invited to prepare drawings for the new building.

For architects, the competition was an important event; not only was it for one of the largest building

projects of its time, but it was only the third opportunity to build an Anglican cathedral in England since the

Reformation in the 16th century (St Paul's Cathedral being the first, rebuilt from scratch after the Great Fire

of London in 1666, and Truro Cathedral being the second, begun in the 19th century).[14]The competition

attracted 103 entries,[14]from architects including Temple Moore, Charles Rennie Mackintosh[15]and

Charles Reilly.[16]With Moore's approval, Scott submitted his own entry, on which he worked in his spare

time.[3]
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Liverpool Cathedral

In 1903, the assessors recommended that Scott should be appointed. There was widespread comment at the

nomination of a twenty-two-year-old with no existing buildings to his credit. Scott admitted that so far his

only design to be constructed had been a pipe-rack.[n 3]The choice of winner was even more contentious

when it emerged that Scott was a Roman Catholic,[n 4]but the assessors' recommendation was accepted by

the diocesan authorities.[3]

Because of Scott's age and inexperience, the cathedral committee appointed Bodley as joint architect to work

in tandem with him.[18]A historian of Liverpool Cathedral observes that it was generous of Bodley to enter

into a working relationship with a young and untried student.[19]Bodley had been a close friend of Scott's

father, but his collaboration with the young Scott was fractious, especially after Bodley accepted

commissions to design two cathedrals in the US,[n 5]necessitating frequent absences from Liverpool.[3]

Scott complained that this "has made the working partnership agreement more of a farce than ever, and to

tell the truth my patience with the existing state of affairs is about exhausted".[20]Scott was on the point of

resigning when Bodley died suddenly in 1907, leaving him in charge.[21]The cathedral committee appointed

Scott sole architect, and though it reserved the right to appoint another co-architect, it never seriously

considered doing so.[5]

In 1910 Scott realised that he was not happy with the main

design, which looked like a traditional Gothic cathedral in the

style of the previous century. He persuaded the cathedral

committee to let him start all over again (a difficult decision, as

some of the stonework had already been erected) and redesigned

it as a simpler and more symmetrical building with a single

massive central tower instead of the original proposal for twin

towers.[22]Scott's new plans provided more interior space.[23]At

the same time Scott modified the decorative style, losing much

of the Gothic detailing and introducing a more modern,

monumental style.[24]

The Lady Chapel,[5]the first part of the building to be

completed, was consecrated in 1910 by Bishop Chavasse in the presence of two archbishops and 24 other

bishops.[25]Work was severely limited during the First World War, with a shortage of manpower, materials

and money.[26]By 1920, the workforce had been brought back up to strength and the stone quarries at

Woolton, source of the red sandstone for most of the building, reopened.[26]The first section of the main

body of the cathedral was complete by 1924, and on 19 July 1924, the 20th anniversary of the laying of the

foundation stone, the cathedral was consecrated in the presence of King George V and Queen Mary, and

bishops and archbishops from round the globe.[26]

Construction continued throughout the 1930s, but slowed drastically throughout the Second World War, as it

had done during the First. Scott continued to work on the project until his death, refining the design as he

went. He designed every aspect of the building down to the fine details. The cathedral was finished in 1978,

nearly two decades after Scott's death.[27]
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Cropthorne Court, Maida Vale (1930).

K2 red telephone boxes preserved as a

tourist attraction near Covent Garden,

London

Battersea Power Station

Other early work

While Scott was feuding with Bodley in Liverpool, he managed to design and see built his first complete

church. This was the Church of the Annunciation, a Roman Catholic church in Bournemouth, in which he

made a high transept similar to his original plan for Liverpool.[3]His work on another new Roman Catholic

church at Sheringham, Norfolk showed his preference for simple Gothic frontages.[3]Other churches built

by Scott at this time, at Ramsey on the Isle of Man, Northfleet in Kent and Stoneycroft in Liverpool, showthe development of his style. While working in Liverpool, Scott met and married Louise Wallbank Hughes,

a receptionist at the Adelphi Hotel; his mother was displeased to learn that she was a Protestant.[3]The

marriage was happy, and lasted until Louise Scott's death in 1949. They had three sons, one of whom died in

infancy.[3]

During the First World War Scott was a Major in the Royal Marines. He was in charge of building sea

defences on the English Channel coast.[3]

1920s

As Liverpool Cathedral rose Scott's fame grew, and he began to

secure commissions for secular buildings.[3]One of the first was

for Clare College, Cambridge, Memorial Court, which was in a

neo-Georgian style on the west bank of the River Cam.[1]This

style was also used for a house he designed for himself in

Clarendon Place, Paddington in 1924, which won the annual

medal for London street architecture of the Royal Institute of

British Architects in 1928.[28]Scott's residential buildings are

few; one of the best known is the Cropthorne Court mansion

block in Maida Vale, where the frontage juts out in diagonals to

eliminate the need for lightwells.[3]

Scott continued

working on churches

during the inter-war

years. Shortly after

his work on the naveat Downside Abbey

he was

commissioned to

design the small

Roman Catholic

Church of Our Lady

& St Alphege, Bath,

the first part of

which was completed in 1929.[29]His design was inspired by the

church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome.[30]Scott's distillation of the main elements of that large and

ancient church into the much smaller Bath parish church has been described as "a delight" which "cannot fail
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to astonish".[29][31]Some 25 years later he wrote "The church was my first essay into the Romanesque style

of architecture. It has always been one of my favourite works".[31]On the capital of one of the pillars

beneath the west gallery W. D. Gough carved a representation of the architect, and a shield inscribed

"Aegidio architecto" (By Giles the architect) possibly the only depiction of Scott in stone.[30]

Scott's most ubiquitous design was for the General Post Office.

[3]

He was one of three architects invited bythe Royal Fine Arts Commission to submit designs for new telephone kiosks.[n 6]The invitation came at the

time Scott was made a trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum. His design was in the classical style, topped with

a dome reminiscent of the mausoleum Soane designed for himself in St Pancras Old Churchyard,

London.[33]It was the chosen design and was put into production in cast iron as the GPO's "Kiosk no. 2" or

"K2".[33]Later designs adapted the same general look for mass production: the Jubilee kiosk, introduced for

King George V's silver jubilee in 1935 and known as the "K6" eventually became a fixture in almost every

town and village.[34][n 7]

1930s

In 1930 the London Power Company engaged Scott as consulting architect for its new electricity generating

station at Battersea. The building was designed by the company's chief engineer, Leonard Pearce, and Scott's

role was to enhance the external appearance of the massive architecture.[n 8]He opted for external

brickwork, put some detailing on the sheer walls, and remodelled the four corner chimneys so that they

resembled classical columns.[3]Battersea Power Station, opened in 1933 but disused since 1982, remains

one of the most conspicuous industrial buildings in London. At the time of its opening, The Observer,

though expressing some reservations about details of Scott's work, called it "one of the finest sights in

London".[n 9]In a poll organised by The Architectural Reviewin 1939 to find what lay people thought were

Britain's best modern buildings, Battersea Power Station was in second place, behind the Peter Jones

building.[38]

In Cambridge, next to Clare Memorial Court, Scott designed a matching library for the University of

Cambridge. He placed two six-storey courtyards in parallel with a twelve-storey tower in the centre, and

linked the windows vertically to the bookstacks. The main reading room measured nearly 2,000 feet by 41

feet and 31 feet high, lit by 25 round-headed clerestory windows on each side.[39]At the time of its opening

in 1934, The Timescommented that the building displayed "the same enjoyment of modelling in mass which

is Sir Giles Scott's chief personal contribution to contemporary architecture."[39]

Scott was elected president of the Royal Institute of British Architects for 1933, its centenary year (having

already been awarded the RIBA's prestigious Royal Gold Medal in 1925).[40]In his presidential address he

urged colleagues to adopt what he called "a middle line": to combine the best of tradition with a fresh

modern approach, to eschew dogma, and recognise "the influence of surroundings on the choice of materials

and the technique of their use. My plea is for a frank and common-sense acceptance of those features and

materials which are practical and beautiful, regardless as to whether they conform with the formula of either

the modern or the traditional school."[41]

From 1937 to 1940, Scott worked on the New Bodleian Library, in Broad Street in Oxford. It is not
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church,

generally considered his finest work. Needing to provide storage for millions of books without building

higher than the surrounding structures, he devised a construction going deep into the earth, behind two

elevations no higher than those around them.[1]His biographer A S G Butler commented, "In an attempt to

be polite to these which vary from late Gothic to Victorian Tudor Scott produced a not very impressive

neo-Jacobean design".[1]A later biographer, Gavin Stamp, praises the considerable technical achievement of

keeping the building low in scale by building underground, but agrees that aesthetically the building is not

among Scott's most successful.[3]Nikolaus Pevsner dismisses it as "neither one thing nor the other".[42]

1940s

Scott's search for the "middle line" caused him difficulties when he was appointed as architect for the new

Coventry Cathedral in 1942. Pressured by the new Bishop of Coventry for a modern design and by the Royal

Fine Arts Commission for a recreation of the old cathedral, he was criticised for trying to compromise

between the two and designing a building that was neither fish nor fowl. Unable to reconcile these

differences Scott resigned in 1947; a competition was held and won by Basil Spence with an

uncompromisingly modern design.

After the Commons chamber of the Palace of Westminster was destroyed by bombs in 1941, Scott was

appointed in 1944 to rebuild it. Here he was hemmed in entirely by the surviving building, but was entirely

of the view that the new chamber should be congruent with the old as anything else would clash with the

Gothic style of Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin. This view found favour with Winston Churchill who

observed "We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us[43]". In a debate on 25 January

1945 the House of Commons approved his choice by 121 to 21 on a free vote.

Last years

After the immediate rush for building work caused by war damage had died down, Scott put a new roof on

the Guildhall in the City of London and designed modernistic brick offices for the Corporation just to the

north. Despite having opposed placing heavily industrial buildings in the centre of cities, he accepted a

commission to build Bankside Power Station on the bank of the River Thames in Southwark, where he built

on what he had learnt at Battersea and gathered all the flues into a single tower. This building was converted

in the late 1990s into Tate Modern art gallery.

Scott continued to receive commissions for religious buildings.

At Preston, Lancashire he built a Roman Catholic church which

is notable for an unusually long and repetitive nave. HisCarmelite Church in Kensington, up the road from St Mary

Abbots built by his grandfather, used transverse concrete arches

to fill a difficult site (the church replaced another lost in the

war). Scott created the design of the Trinity College Chapel in

Toronto, completed in 1955, a lovely example of the

perpendicular Gothic, executed by the local firm of George and

Moorhouse and featuring windows by E. Liddall Armstrong of

Whitefriars.

Scott remained working into his late 70s. He was working on

designs for the Roman Catholic Church of Christ the King,
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Kensington

22 Weymouth Street

Plymouth, when he developed lung cancer. He took the designs

into University College Hospital, where he continued to revise

them until his death aged 79.

Burial & Grave

Scott was buried by the monks of Ampleforth[44]

outside the west entrance of Liverpool Cathedral,alongside his wife (as a Roman Catholic he could not be buried inside the body of the Cathedral).[45]

Although originally planned in the 1942 design for the west end of the Cathedral to be within a porch, the

site of the grave was eventually covered by a car park access road.[46]The road layout was changed, the

grave was restored and the grave marker replaced in 2012.[47]

A requiem mass for Scott was celebrated by Father Patrick Casey at St James's Roman Catholic Church,

Spanish Place, London, on 17 February 1960.[48]

Family

In addition to his father and grandfather, other members of Scott's family who were architects included an

uncle, John Oldrid Scott, a brother, Adrian Gilbert Scott and son Richard Gilbert Scott.

Works

Work Place Date Notes

St Botolph'sChurch

Carlton-in-Cleveland,Yorkshire

189697

designed byTempleMoore withScott as clerkof works

LiverpoolCathedral

Liverpool 190360completedposthumouslyin 1978

Nanfans (privatehouse)

Prestwood,Buckinghamshire

1903

Chapel inLondon Road

Harrow, London 190506

Church of theAnnunciation(RC)

Bournemouth,Dorset

1906

Church of theHoly Ghost

MidsomerNorton, Somerset

190713

conversion ofa tithe barnfor use as achurch

Nave seating,All Saints' Bubwith, 1909
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North Block at Guildhall

Whitelands Teacher Training College,

pictured in 2005 while undergoing

conversion to residential accommodation.

Clare Memorial Court

Chester House

Church Yorkshire

East window, StGiles's Church

Burnby,Yorkshire

1909

Our Lady Star ofthe Sea and StMaughold

Church (RC)

Ramsey, Isle ofMan

190912

Nave, St Mary'sChurch

Bury, Lancashire c. 1910

St Joseph'sChurch (RC)

Sheringham,Norfolk

191036

ChesterCathedral,restoration

Chester,Cheshire

191113

cloisters, east

window ofrefectory,rood in the

crossingChancel of All

Hallows' Church

Gospel Oak,

London191315

Church of OurLady of theAssumption(RC)

Northfleet, Kent 191316

Lady Chapelreredos, St

Michael'sChurch (RC)

Elswick,Newcastle upon

Tyne

1914

Rood Beam, StDeiniol's Church

Hawarden,Flintshire

191516

St Paul'sChurch,Stoneycroft

Liverpool 1916

129 Grosvenor

RoadLondon c. 1918

loggia,private house

for ArthurStanley

Chancel, StCatherine'sChurch

Pontypridd,Glamorgan

1919

War memorialHanmer,Flintshire

1919

War memorialHawarden,Flintshire

191920

War memorial,St Saviour's

Church

Oxton,Birkenhead,

Cheshire

1920
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Tower at the Cambridge University Library

William Booth Memorial Training College

Guinness Brewery Park Royal, during

demolition

War memorialcross, Our Lady

of VictoriesChurch (RC)

Clapham,

London1920

Alterations tosouth chancel

chapel, Churchof St MaryAbbot

Kensington,

London 192021

War MemorialChapel Churchof St Michael,

Chester Square

Belgravia,London

192021

Rectory Warmemorial tabletand northern

aisle screen,Holy TrinityChurch

Trefnant,

Denbighshire 1921

New church,AmpleforthAbbey

Gilling East,Yorkshire

1922notcompleteduntil 1961

Extensions toJunior House,Ampleforth

College


1920s!30s

Memorial Court,Clare College

Cambridge 192334

Nave and

monument toAbbot Ramsay

DownsideAbbey, Somerset

c. 192325

K2 Redtelephone box

1924

Reconstruction

of St George'sChurch

Kidderminster,

Worcestershire after 1924

War memorial,All Saints'Church

Wigan,Lancashire

1925

Our Lady and St

Alphege Church(RC)

Bath, Somerset c. 1927

Church of St

Alban and StMichael

Golders Green,

London 1925 built 193233
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Saint Joseph's Church, Sheringham,

built between 1910 and 1936

Bankside Power Station (now Tate

Modern), London, completed in 1963

A K6 telephone box, also designed by

Giles Gilbert Scott, in the Liverpool

Anglican cathedral

Chester House,Clarendon Place

Paddington,London

192526 his own home

CharterhouseSchool chapel

Godalming,Surrey

1922;completedandconsecrated1927

the largestwar memorialin England

War memorial(MarketSquare), andmunicipal roll ofhonour in theHarris Museum

Preston,Lancashire

192327;

completedandunveiled1927

All Saints'Church

Wallasey,Cheshire

192739 uncompleted

Church of St

Michael

Ashford, Surrey 1928 uncompleted

MemorialChapel

BromsgroveSchool

Bromsgrove,

Worcestershire192839

Continuation ofthe north range,St Swithun's

Buildings,Magdalen

College

Oxford 192830

William BoothMemorial

Training College

Camberwell,London

1929

St Ninian'sChurch (RC)

Restalrig,Edinburgh

1929 uncompleted

Church of OurLady and StAlphege

Oldfield Park,Bath

1929

St Francis ofAssisi Church

High Wycombe,Buckinghamshire

192930

WhitelandsCollege

Wandsworth 192931

Plinth for statueof Sir JoshuaReynoldsBurlingtonHouse

Piccadilly,London

192931

Battersea PowerStation London 192935

consultant onexteriors
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North EastTower, OurLady of Graceand St EdwardChurch (RC)

Chiswick,London

1930

K3 Red

telephone box 1930

Phoenix TheatreCharing CrossRoad

London 1930with BertieCrewe

Altar, StAugustine's

Kilburn, London 1930

St Columba'sCathedral

Oban, Argyll 193053

Cropthorne

Court privateresidences)

Maida Vale,London

193037

Apse and northtower, Church ofOur Lady Star ofthe Sea (RC)

Broadstairs, Kent 193031

Classroomrange, GillingCastle


after 1930

St Andrew'sChurch

Luton 193132

Chapel and

collegebuildings, LadyMargaret Hall

Oxford 1931

New UniversityLibrary

Cambridge 193134

Whitelands

College, WestHill

Putney, London 1931

Vincent House,Vincent Square

Westminster 1932 consultant

Clergy House

for St Francis ofAssisi Church

High Wycombe,Buckinghamshire

1933

GuinnessBrewery

Park Royal,London

193335demolished2006

Buildings innorth court, Cambridge 1934
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Trinity Hall

Font Church ofSt Michael,Chester Square

Belgravia,London

1934

Additions to St

Joseph's Church

(RC)

Sheringham,Norfolk

1934

Restoration of StEtheldreda'sChurch (RC),

Ely Place

Holborn, London 1935

FountainsHouse, ParkLane

London 193538 consultant

K6 red

telephone box

1935

Main Building,University ofSouthampton

Southampton,Hampshire

1935

in associationwithGutteridgeandGutteridge

Private house,22 WeymouthStreet

Marylebone,London

1936

New BodleianLibrary Oxford 193740

Alterations tobarn at DenhamGolf Club

Denham,

Buckinghamshire1938

Hartland House,St Anne'sCollege

Oxford 1938

High pedestal

for King GeorgeV monument,Old Palace Yard

Westminster 1939

North and SouthBlocks, County

Hall

London1939 and195058

Waterloo Bridge London 193740

Kepier powerstation

Durham 1940s never built

Chamber of theHouse of

CommonsWestminster 194550
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Notes

1. ^Scott's younger brother Adrian became a pupil of Moore at the same time. Their elder brother Sebastian chose a

medical career, and became, in Richard Gibert's Scott's phrase, an eminent radiologist.,[7]head of the radiology

department of the London Hospital from 1909 to 1930.[8]

2. ^Some of Scott's contemporaries shared his view of the relative merits of his father and grandfather. In 1950 a

profile of Scott in The Observercalled George Gilbert Scott, Jr. a much better architect than his more famous

father.[9]In 1960 The Guardiancalled the eldest Scott "the archaeological 'renovator' to whose devastating energy so

many of our cathedrals bear unhappy witness, while [George Gilbert Scott Jr.] was an architect of some

discrimination and taste".[10]

3. ^The pipe-rack had been constructed to Scott's design by his sister.[17]

4. ^At this time it was customary for architects to undertake ecclesiastical work only for the denomination to which

they belonged. When Bodley's partner Thomas Garner became a Roman Catholic in 1897, the partnership was

dissolved and Garner's church work was thereafter exclusively for the Roman Catholic church while Bodley worked

solely on Anglican churches.[5]

5. ^These were for Washington, DC and San Francisco. The latter was not built.[12]

6. ^The other two were Sir Robert Lorimer and Sir John Burnet.[32]

7. ^Some rural communities were not impressed by the vivid red of Scott's design. A councillor in the Lake District

said , "red might be the best colour for London, but they did not want that colour of Hades brought into the Lake

District."[35]

8. ^Scott was at pains to emphasise the limits of his contribution to the building and to ensure that due credit was given

to Pearce and to the architectural practice Halliday and Agate which was responsible for the interior.[36]

9. ^The paper's architecture correspondent complained that the four chimneys looked like minarets "though very

beautiful minarets".[37]

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