Find Profile:  1 record found

You are browsing a single profile, Click here to return to the Browse Designers Screen

 


1
Save
Print
Mail this profile  

Scott, George Gilbert [1811-1878. UK. Architect]

 

George Gilbert Scott was born in Gawcott, Buckinghamshire, England on 13 July 18… subscribers only


A portrait of George Gilber Scott

A portrait of George Gilber Scott


Bibliography

1. Anson, Peter F. Fashions in Church Furnishings 1840-1940. London: Studio Vista, 2nd edition, 1965 pp. 143-160

2. Arnold, Dana. ‘George Gilbert Scott and Bombay: India's gothic architecture’. Apollo vol. 133, no. 348, February 1991 pp. 87-90

3. Begley, W. W. ‘Sir Gilbert Scott and the Nikolai Kirche of Hamburg’ The Builder vol. 132, 17 July 1927 pp.964-965

4. Branford, Suzanne. ‘The restoration of Salisbury Cathedral by George Gilbert Scott, 1862-78’ Ecclesiology Today no. 37, December 2006 pp. 67-80.

5. Briggs, Martin Shaw. ‘Sir Gilbert Scott, RA’ Architectural Review vol. 24, August 1908 pp. 92-100

6. Briggs, Martin Shaw. ‘Sir Gilbert Scott, RA’ Architectural Review vol. 24, September 1908 pp. 147-152

7. Briggs, Martin Shaw. ‘Sir Gilbert Scott, RA’ Architectural Review vol. 24, October 1908 pp. 180-185

8. Briggs, Martin Shaw. ‘Sir Gilbert Scott, RA’ Architectural Review vol. 24, December 1908 pp. 290-295

9. Brindle, Steven. ‘Sir George Gilbert Scott as surveyor of Westminster Abbey, 1849-78.’ British Archaeological Association. Conference transactions no. 39, part 1, 2015, p. 325-352

10. Brownlee, David B. ‘That 'Regular Mongrel Affair': G. G. Scott's Design for the Government Offices ‘. Architectural History vol. 28 1985 pp. 159-182, 184-197

11. Burden, Alfred W. N. ‘Sir George Gilbert Scott’. Architectural Association Notes vol. 17, February 1902 pp. 17-19

12. Butler, Richard J. Secular & domestic : George Gilbert Scott and the Master's Lodge of St John's College, Cambridge. Cambridge : Esson Print, 2013.

13. Catalogue of the drawings collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: Vol. 14. The Scott family. Compiled by Geoffrey Fisher, et al. Amersham: Gregg, 1981

14. Clarke, Basil F. L. Church Builders of the Nineteenth Century: A Study of the Gothic Revival in England. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1938 pp. 160-172

15. Coffman, Peter. ‘St John's Anglican Cathedral and the beginnings of ecclesiological Gothic in Newfoundland; Architects: Sir George Gilbert Scott’. Architecture in Canada vol. 31, no. 1, 2006, pp. 3-22.

16. Cole, David. ‘Sir George Scott’ in Victorian Architecture, edited by Peter Ferriday. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 pp. 175-184

17. Cole, David. ‘Some early work of George Gilbert Scott’ Architectural Association Journal vol. 66, December 1950 pp. 98-108

18. Cruickshank, Dan. ‘Masters of building. The Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras’. Architects’ Journal vol. 206, no. 19, 20 November 1997 pp. 59-76.

19. Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001

20. Ferriday, Percy. ‘The greatest Folly of them all: the architecture of St. Pancras Station and Hotel’. Country Life vol. 138, 18 November 1965 pp. 1314-1317

21. Girouard, Mark. The Victorian Country House. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, revised and enlarged edition, 1979.

22. Girouard, Mark. ‘Kelham Hall, Nottinghamshire’. Country Life vol. 141, 25 May 1967 pp. 1302-1305 [Kelham Hall, Nottinghamshire was designed by Scott and completed in 1863. Second part of a two-part article]

23. Girouard, Mark. ‘Kelham Hall, Nottinghamshire’. Country Life vol. 141, 18 May 1967 pp. 1230-1233 [Kelham Hall, Nottinghamshire was designed by Scott and completed in 1863. First part of a two-part article]

24. Handley-Read, Charles. ‘Legacy of a vanished empire: the design of the India’. Country Life vol. 148, 9 July 1970 pp. 110-112 [Discusses Scott’s rejected design for the India Office in Whitehall, London]

25. Handley-Read, Charles. ‘The Albert Memorial re-assessed’. Country Life vol. 130, 14 December 1961 pp. 1514-1516 [The Albert Memorial in London was designed by and built 1865-73]

26. Howell, Peter. ‘Scott's masterpiece restored; Architect (1856-9): Sir George Gilbert Scott’. Country Life vol. 182, no. 17, 28 April 1988 pp. 144-146 [All Souls, Haley Hill, Halifax, designed by Scott]

27. Jordan, William J. ‘Sir George Gilbert Scott R.A., Surveyor to Westminster Abbey 1849-1878’. Architectural History vol. 23, 1980 pp. 60-85, 188-190

28. Lockett, Richard. ‘Sydney Smirke, George Gilbert Scott and 'the rearrangement of Lichfield Cathedral for divine worship': 1854-1861’. University of Birmingham. Institute for the Study of Worship and Religious Architecture. Research Bulletin

29. Mane, Jonathan Mane. ‘Gilbert Scott's colonial churches’. Australasian Victorian Studies Association. Conference papers 1987 pp. 31-42

30. Morrison, Kathryn A. ‘The new-poor-law workhouses of George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt’, Architectural History, vol. 40, 1997, pp. 184–203

31. Musson, Jeremy. ‘A masterly touch: the Master's Lodge, St John's College, Cambridge’. Country Life vol. 211, no. 43, 25 October 2017 pp. 52-56 [Master's Lodge, St John's College, Cambridge, designed by Scott and built in 1863-65]

32. Musson, Jeremy. ‘The Manor House at Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire’ Country Life vol. 194, no. 43, 26 October 2000 pp. 58-67.{Designed as a parsonage by Scott in 1843-46]

33. Porter, Bernard. The battle of the styles: society, culture and the design of the new Foreign Office, 1855-1861 London : Continuum, 2011 [Discusses Scott’s designs for the Foreign Office in Whitehall, London]

34. Powell, Kim. ‘A Victorian masterpiece: All Souls, Halifax; Architects: Sir George Gilbert Scott’. Yorkshire Architect no. 57, November-December 1977, pp. 20-22.

35. Roberts, H. V. Molesworth. ‘Sir George Gilbert Scott’. RIBA Journal vol. 65, April 1958 p. 207

36. Sir George Gilbert Scott. Edited by P. S. Barnwell, Geoffrey Tyack and William Whyte. London: Paul Watkins Publishing, 2014 [Contents (publisher’s details): Gavin Stamp provides an overview on Scott’s life and work (1–21); Chris Miele examines the young Scott (22–48); Geoff Brandwood examines ‘Scott as London Church Builder’, 49–69; G. A. Bremner writes on the colonial cathedrals Scott built 1846–74, 70–90; Claudia Marx examines Scott’s legacy as a restorer of major churches, 91–111; Geoffrey Tyack examines ‘Scott in Oxford’, 112–133 and Simon Bradley ‘Scott and Cambridge’, 134–57; Peter Howell writes on Scott’s little-known work as a country house architect, 158–71; M. H. Port looks at Scott’s work as a state architect (especially the Foreign Office design), 172–92; Kimberley Frost writes on Scott’s design process for the University of Glasgow, 193–212; William Whyte on the influence of Scott’s work on other practices, 213–29 and finally Geoffrey Tyack and William Whyte sum up the Scott legacy over the last two hundred years, 230–37]

37. Sir Gilbert Scott (1811-1878): an Architect of the Gothic Revival. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1978

38. Sir Gilbert Scott and the Scott dynasty. Edited by Roger Dixon London : Polytechnic of the South Bank, Department of Architecture, 1980.

39. Skinner, Robin. ‘Drawing from an Indigenous Tradition? George Gilbert Scott's First Design for Christchurch Cathedral, 1861-62’ Architectural History vol. 53, 2010 pp. 245-270

40. Stamp, Gavin. The English House 1860-1914. Catalogue of an exhibition of photographs and drawings. London: International Architect and the Building Centre Trust, 1980 p. 7

41. Stamp, Gavin. ‘Great Scott. A Gothic reputation is revived’. Building Design no. 1973 8 July 2011 pp. 28-29

42. Stamp, Gavin. ‘In Search of the Byzantine: George Gilbert Scott's Diary of an Architectural Tour in France in 1862’. Architectural History vol. 46, 2003 pp. 189-222

43. Stamp, Gavin. ‘Sir Gilbert Scott and the 'restoration' of mediaeval buildings’. AA Files vol. 1, no. 1, 1981/1982 Winter, pp. 89-97

44. Stamp, Gavin. ‘Sir Gilbert Scott, architect of the Gothic Revival’, Architectural Design vol. 48, nos. 8/9, 1978, pp. 538-541.

45. Stamp, Gavin. ‘Sir Gilbert Scott’s Recollections’. Architectural History vol. 19, 1976 pp. 54-73 [Scott’s autobiography Personal and Professional Recollections (1879) is discussed]

46. Trumble, Angus. ‘Gilbert Scott's 'bold and beautiful experiment', part II: The tomb of Charlotte, Lady Canning’ Burlington Magazine vol. 142, no. 1162, January 2000 pp. 20-28 [Tomb designed by Scott for the north portico of St John's Church, Calcutta]

47. Trumble, Angus’. ‘Gilbert Scott's 'bold and beautiful experiment', part I: The tomb of Sir Charles Hotham in Melbourne’. Burlington Magazine vol.141, no. 1161, December 1999 pp. 739-748 [Discusses the tomb designed by Scott in collaboration with the sculptor John Birnie Philip]

48. Tyack, Geoffrey. ‘Gilbert Scott and the Chapel of Exeter College, Oxford’. Architectural History vol. 50, 2007 pp. 125-148

49. Whelan, Aidan. ‘George Gilbert Scott: A Pioneer of Constructional Polychromy?’ Architectural History vol. 57, 2014 pp. 217-238

50. ‘Great British architects: Sir Gilbert Scott, 1811-78’ Country Life vo. 204, no. 26, 30 June 2010 pp. 92-93

51. ‘Obituary’ Building News vol. 34, 19 April 1878 p. 385-386

52. ‘Obituary’ The Builder vol. 36, 6 April 1878 pp. 339-343, 360

53. ‘Obituary’ Building News vol. 34, , 29 March 1878 pp.309-310

54. ‘Obituary’ Building News vol. 34, 5 April 1878 p. 339

55. ‘Obituary’ American Architect & Building News vol. 3, 1879 pp. 117, 150-151

56. ‘Obituary’ Architect vol. 19, 1878, 29 March 1878 pp. 193, 201-202, 209-211, 213

57. ‘Obituary’. Royal Institute of British Architects Transitions 1878-79 pp. 3-5, 193-208

58. ‘Sir George Gilbert Scott: bicentenary issue’. Victorian no. 37, July 20121 pp. 5-15 [Includes: ‘Sir George Gilbert Scott 1811-2011’, by Gavin Stamp, p. 5; ‘A conservative cathedral restorer’, by Claudia Marx, pp. 6-9; ‘George Gilbert Scott and the University of Bombay’, by Richard Butler, pp. 10-13; ‘The Midland Grand lives again, pp. 14-15. Photographs of the newly restored Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras Station designed by Scott]

Weblinks

ART UK 

Gavin Stamp, ‘Scott, Sir George Gilbert (1811–1878)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [Subscription service] 

GilberScott.org 

Index to The Builder and Building News 

Internet Archive. George Gilbert Scott. Personal and professional recollections.  

National Art Library Catalogue 

National Portrait Gallery, London 

Peter Howell and Gavin Stamp. Scott Family. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online [Subscription service] 

RIBApix - 399 entries on George Gilbert Scott 

Royal Academy of Arts Collections 

Simon Jenkins. Sir George Gilbert Scott, the unsung hero of British architecture. The Guardian 

Stoke-on-Trent Architecture 

Structurae 

The London Library. The Gilbert Scotts and The London Library 

The National Archives 

The Victorian Web 

Universitry of Glasgow 

Victoria & Albert Museum, London 

Westminster Abbey. Sir George Gilbert Scott 

Wikimedia Commons 

Wikipedia 

YouTube. King’s College London. George Gilbert Scott: the family that built Gothic Britain [Historian and TV presenter Dan Cruickshank presents The Churches Conservation Trust’s 2015 Annual Lecture, exploring the triumphant and tragic story of the greatest architectural dynasty of the 19th century – Sir George Gilbert Scott, his son George Junior and grandson Giles. Following on from the 2014 BBC documentary, Dan Cruickshank and the Family That Built Gothic Britain, this lecture explores the impact of the Gilbert Scott family on our nation’s architecture, with a particular focus on the churches in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust, the national charity protecting historic churches at risk] 

See: 30 Pages for Scott, George Gilbert in ReView