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Hace 1 día · Architect, Historian and Writer. In the centre part of the nave of Westminster Abbey is the grave of Sir George Gilbert Scott, architect and Surveyor of the Fabric at the Abbey from 1849-1878. He was perhaps the foremost of the Gothic Revivalists in the Victorian period and was a designer and restorer of many churches and secular buildings.
Architect; father of George Gilbert Scott Jr Sir George Gilbert Scott was the leading architect of the Gothic Revival style during the Victorian period. Scott began his formal training with the architect James Edmeston. In the early 1840s, he began to take a serious interest in the medieval Gothic style of architecture. Travelling around Europe, he studied medieval art first hand, finding ...
15 de sept. de 2023 · About George Gilbert Scott, Jr. During the 1860 and 1870s he worked for his father in his architectural practice. [2] He married Ellen King Sampson in the 1870s. [1] Among the buildings he designed was St John the Baptist Church, Norwich, which became a Roman Catholic cathedral. [3] He was also responsible for buildings in three of the ...
1811-1878. Sir George Gilbert Scott was the founder of a fantastically successful architectural dynasty, and probably the most successful and prolific Victorian Gothic architect. Author Simon Jenkins called Scott the 'unsung hero of British architecture'. Unsung, perhaps, because although his output was extraordinary - you could say that no ...
9 de feb. de 2024 · 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 ...
46 Scott’s architect sons George Gilbert Scott Junior (1839-97) and John Oldrid Scott (1841-1913), and his then chief assistant Richard Coad (1825-1900). A surviving letter from Scott Junior to J. T. Irvine now at the RCAHMS reveals that on 10 September 1862 he had been at Rouen, a city he frequented, especially after his mental breakdown in 1883: see Stamp, An Architect of Promise .
Now cleaned and conserved, its colours and gilding glow … and make this a dramatic focus to the chancel of this church.46 On 29 September 2007, the feast of St Michael and All Angels, the George Gilbert Scott Jr. reredos was re-dedicated by the author (then Associate Vicar of St Mary the Great with St Michael Cambridge) in the presence of ...
