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The two Scott brothers
created some landmark designs for England and Scotland: the classic red
phone box, Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral and Edinburgh's soaring spires
- St Mary's Cathedral:

St Mary's Edinburgh - photo © adrian welch
George Gilbert Scott (1811-78)
University
of Glasgow
St
Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh
McManus Galleries,
Dundee
British Home Office, London
Albert Memorial,
London
St Pancras
Station, London
St Pancras Chambers:

photograph © adrian welch
Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960)
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool
Guild Hall, London
St Asaph, Flintshire - Cathedral
English red telephone box - K6
Key George
Gilbert Scott building - Battersea Power Station, London:

building from the Thames: scanned photo © adrian
welch
George Gilbert Scott - Background + Key Buildings
This English Gothic architect is probably best known for St Pancras Station
and for the Albert Memorial.
A key member of the British Gothic Revival, Scott designed many public
structures. His design for the Church of St Nicholas in Hamburg won first
place in an 1844 competition. He also directed much Gothic restoration
work, beginning with renovations of Ely Cathedral and including Westminster
Abbey. Among George Gilbert's other designs were the buildings for the
British Home Office, the Albert Memorial, and St Pancras Station, London.
The Albert Memorial is 180 ft high and located on the southwest side of
Hyde Park opposite the Albert Hall. It was designed in 1872, completed
in 1876 and opened by Queen Victoria.
George's grandson, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, submitted designs in the architecture
competition for the proposed Liverpool Cathedral while still a pupil.
They were accepted in 1903, but due to the winner's young age G. F. Bodley
partnered him.
After the death of Bodley in 1907, Giles Gilbert Scott redesigned Liverpool
Cathedral, creating a revered Gothic structure. Consecrated in 1924, it
was completed in 1978. Scott's other works include buildings for Clare
College, Cambridge, several Oxford University buildings, Cambridge University
Library, English war memorials and the Waterloo Bridge over the River
Thames in London.
For other Cambridge buildings please see our Cambridge
Architecture page.
Giles Gilbert Scott - Classic Red Telephone Box
The K6 "Jubilee" model phone boxes were designed by Sir Giles
Gilbert Scott to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V in
1935.
Giles Gilbert Scott - Key Building:
Albert Memorial
Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens, West London
1872-76
George Gilbert Scott
The Foreign Office and India Office - Durbar Court, King Charles
St, London SW1
Sir George Gilbert Scott & Matthew Digby Wyatt
1861-68
Grade I listed Victorian buildings
London Architecture
George Gilbert
Scott - RIBA Gold Medal 1859 Winner
St Pancras Station under refurbishment:

photograph © adrian welch
Robert Adam
Architecture
Books
More Scottish Architects: Scottish
Architecture
Edinburgh
George
Gilbert Scott - Scottish buildings
Scottish Castles
in Edinburgh & Lothian
George Gilbert Scott is buried in Westminster Abbey, London
World Architecture : e-architect
- a guide to key buildings across the globe
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George Gilbert Scott buildings
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