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Many of the external features you see today are by its major restorer Sir George Gilbert Scott, including the spires and small towers atop the main tower, which had been originally built about 1210 and which was described by him, before its long-overdue restoration, as a "picturesque and crumbling pile of soft sandstone, inhabited by jackdaws".
The screen to the choir is by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1876, the gates made by Skidmore; the Rood 1913 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was made by F Stuflesser; the choir aisle gates are 1558 from Guadalajara, presented to Chester Cathedral 1876; organ screen and case, north, 1876 by Sir George Gilbert Scott.
9 de feb. de 2024 · The most extensive restoration was carried out by the Gothic Revival architect, George Gilbert Scott, who between 1868 and 1876 "almost entirely re-cased" the cathedral. The current building is acknowledged to be mainly the product of this Victorian restoration commissioned by the Dean, John Saul Howson.
4 de abr. de 2024 · At the age of fifty-nine, after forty years of unremitting activity, Scott suddenly found that there was a limit to his physical powers. While inspecting the cathedral at Chester on 19 October 1870, he was struck down with a massive heart attack. He was carried across the Abbey Square to the Dea
7 de mar. de 1999 · The carved oak cathedra located at the east end of the south half of the choir stalls was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott c. 1875. It was donated by Lord Dudley, brother-in-law to Bishop Claughton. This cathedra replaced the previous throne designed by Lewis Nockal Cottingham in 1840, which was given to St Alban's and subsequently disappeared.
SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811-1878), architect, born in 1811 at Gawcott, Buckinghamshire, was the son of Thomas Scott, perpetual curate of that place, and grandson of Thomas Scott the [famous biblical] commentator. Scott's mother was daughter of Dr. Lynch of Antigua, and was descended maternally from the Gilberts, a family of "West Indian ...
13 de abr. de 2015 · Sir George Gilbert Scott took considerable care in his restoration work at Winchester Cathedral, working at first reluctantly and then sympathetically and conservatively with it. In his own account of the project, he explains: Here I have done nothing but the opening out of the screen. I was called in about this several years back, but declined ...