Scott, Sir George Gilbert, (1811-1878), Knight, architect

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Surname:	Scott
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	George Gilbert
Gender:	Male
Date:	1811-1878
Title:	Knight
History:	Architect. Appointed architect for the India Office 1858 and subsequently commissioned to complete the block of buildings by the erection of the Home and Colonial Offices. Also responsible for the Albert Memorial in 1864, and in 1865 designed St Pancras Station and Hotel, London, and buildings of Glasgow University. President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1873-1876, and Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy from 1868. Knighted 1872.
Biography:	ODNB link for Scott, Sir George Gilbert (1811-1878), knight and architect
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P276130 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P161994 )
Online related resources	Artists' Paper Register link for Sir George Gilbert Scott	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir George Gilbert Scott

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1832-1952: Midland Railway Company: Records	The National Archives, Kew	RAIL 491
2	1839-78: corresp and papers	Royal Institute of British Architects	ScGGS	NRA 34242 Scott
3	architectural sketchbooks and drawings	Royal Institute of British Architects	Drawings Collection	See Cumulative Index to the Catalogue of the Drawings Collection (1989)
4	1847-74: letters (73) to EA Freeman	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library	Freeman papers	NRA 25956 Freeman
5	1864-78: letters to FT Havergal	Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre	C71	NRA 29105 Havergal
6	1866-69: corresp with Sir AH Layard	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 38993-6
7	1859-68: letters (16) to Miss Ryland rel to Sherbourne church	Warwickshire County Record Office	CR 737/CR 2120	NRA 3519 Warwicks RO misc
8	1846-52: corresp rel to St John's Cathedral, Newfoundland	Royal Institute of British Architects	Scott p14	NRA 13990 RIBA
9	1848: plans for Headington Quarry Church	Oxfordshire History Centre	PAR/127/11/Y1	NRA 29487 Oxon parishes
10	1849-66: corresp rel to Berkshire churches	Royal Berkshire Archives	D/ESv	NRA 10469 Stevens
11	1855: corresp rel to Wooland House	Dorset History Centre	D/WIW	NRA 8986
12	1857: plans for restoration and extension of Cattistock Church	Dorset History Centre	PE/CAT	NRA 29464 Dorset parishes
13	1852-58: corresp, sketches and estimates rel to rebuilding of Woolland Church and Cattistock Church	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS top Dorset c 6
14	c1857-85: architectural drawings	Historic Environment Scotland		NRA 22691 Scott
15	c1862-65: letters rel to Rode Church	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies	DBW	NRA 9848
16	c1862-67: papers rel to Cirencester Church	Gloucestershire Archives	P86	NRA 29469 Glos parishes
17	1863: report on Worcester Cathedral choir restoration	Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service	857	NRA 7371 Pakington
18	1876-78: plans etc for Halstead and Stanway church restorations	Essex Record Office	D/C	NRA 12031 Chelmsford diocese
19	letters, plans etc rel to Sudeley Castle alterations	Gloucestershire Archives	D1494,2579	NRA 6429 Brocklehurst
20	drawings for Chichester Cathedral restoration	West Sussex Record Office	Add MSS 1850-61	NRA 7796 W Sussex misc
21	1860-1864: plans for Cambridge University buildings	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	P.XXXI
22	1869-71: Highclere Church specification and accounts	Highclere Castle		NRA 7289 Herbert
23	c1864-71: papers rel to restoration of Bath Abbey	Bath Record Office: Local Studies	Irvine MSS/Vol 5	NRA 41514 Irvine
24	c1862: design for Hafodunos, Abergele, Clwyd	Royal Institute of British Architects	1999.20	See Annual Return 1999
25	1850-1870: additional records, personal and project papers	Royal Institute of British Architects		See Annual Return 2004
26	notebooks (5)	Royal Institute of British Architects		See Annual Return 2005
27	c1863-73: (copy) notebooks (3)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 763
28	1849-1878: papers as Surveyor of the Fabric Westminster Abbey 1849-1878: letters to Dean Stanley, Lord John Thynne and others, reports, drawings rel to the Abbey and refitting of St Margaret’s Westminster 1877	Westminster Abbey Library and Muniment Room	WAM series; WAM S/1; WAM OAC/9; SD collection	See Surveyors of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey 1827-1906. Reports and Letters by Christine Reynolds, 2
29	1860: lithograph of the Muniment Room	Westminster Abbey Library and Muniment Room	Langley VI.14 no. 33