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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
Gilling East,Yorkshire
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
Gilling East,Yorkshire
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]
References
1. ^ abcdeButler, A. S. G. "Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert" (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/olddnb/35987), Dictionary of
National Biography Archive, Oxford University Press, accessed 22 June 2012 (subscription required)
2. ^Stamp, Gavin. "Scott, Sir George Gilbert (18111878)" (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24869), Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University press, accessed 21 June 2012 (subscription required)
3. ^ abcdefghijklmnopStamp, Gavin. "Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert (18801960)"
(http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35987), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press,
accessed 21 June 2012 (subscription required)
4. ^ abScott, p. 3
5. ^ abcdefThomas, John. "The 'Beginnings of a Noble Pile': Liverpool Cathedral's Lady Chapel (190410)"
(http://www.jstor.org/stable/40033841),Architectural History, Vol. 48, (2005), pp. 257290
6. ^Scott, pp. 12
7. ^Scott, p. 2
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