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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960) was a British architect known for his work on the New Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Battersea Power Station, Liverpool Cathedral, and designing the iconic red telephone box. Scott came from a family of architects.
The Ampleforth Abbey was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880 – 1960), who also designed Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. Known for his monumental structures, evident in that cathedral, Cambridge University Library, and Battersea Power Station, the abbey church also bears the hallmarks of his style which skilfully blends Gothic with the modern.
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 ...
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and Elizabeth Scott. 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 ...
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott OM RA (Hampstead, 9 november 1880 - Bloomsbury, 8 februari 1960) was een Brits architect. Hij kwam uit een familie van vele architecten: zijn grootvader George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), zijn vader George Gilbert Scott Jr. (1839-1897), zijn oom John Oldrid Scott (1841-1913) en zijn jongere broer met wie hij soms samenwerkte, Adrian Gilbert Scott (1881-1963).
16 de abr. de 2024 · Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The Palace of Westminster was damaged by air raids on fourteen different occasions during the Second World War. The most damage was caused on the 10 and 11 May 1941. Both the House of Commons Chamber and Westminster Hall were hit. The fire service saved the ancient hall meaning the Commons Chamber was completely destroyed.
St Giles, Camberwell was designed by Scott & Moffat in 1842-4. The small medieval parish church of Camberwell had been much “improved” by eighteenth-century windows and appears to have had a small modern apse rather than its medieval chancel. It was the sort of thing that Scott or one of the other Gothic giants would have restored and ...
