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16 de abr. de 2018 · West front, Hereford Cathedral was designed by John Oldrid Scott in 1902-8. Hereford, like most English cathedrals, has had more than its fair share of misfortunes. The biggest came in 1787, when its west front collapsed. It had been its original Romanesque façade, with a foolhardy fourteenth-century three-storey central tower raised between ...
Born in London, the second son of Sir George Gilbert Scott, and uncle of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960), he trained with his brother, George jnr, in his father's office from 1860. He assumed complete control of the business after his brother's suicide in 1897, and followed closely in his fathers 'Gothic' footsteps, becoming noted for his many churches throughout England.
Scott, John Oldrid (1841–1913). English architect. The second son of ‘Great’ Scott , he carried out various works with his brother, ‘Middle’ Scott , including the spectacular Church of St John the Baptist (now the RC Cathedral), Norwich (1884–1910).
Sir George Gilbert Scott is buried in Westminster Abbey in a grave, which he would have been pleased to learn, unearthed some of the earliest Roman remains discovered in the Abbey. The iconic red telephone box was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott who took inspiration from Sir John Soane’s wife mausoleum.
2 de ago. de 2018 · The iconic red telephone box was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott who took inspiration from Sir John Soane’s wife mausoleum. Sir George Gilbert Scott at the age of just 33 built the tallest building in the world (At the time, St Nicholas’s Cathedral in Hamburg)
The Univ is an Oxford college barge, built in 1878, to the designs of the Victorian architect John Oldrid Scott (1841-1913). When the rowing first started at Oxford in the mid nineteenth-century the Oxford University Boat Club (OUBC) and a few enlightened colleges, such as University College, purchased the Thames livery barges for use as their clubhouses on the river.
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. 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 ...
