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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