Giles Gilbert Scott - Definition and Overview

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (9 November 1880-8 February 1960) was an English architect, the son of George Gilbert Scott Junior and grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott, both also noted architects, as was his uncle, John Oldrid Scott.

He was educated at Beaumont College.

Liverpool Anglican Cathedral

He is perhaps best known for his prize-winning design of 1903 for the new Anglican cathedral in Liverpool. Although consecrated in 1924, Liverpool Cathedral was not completed until the 1980s.

Other designs of Scott's include:

• restoration of cloisters at Chester Cathedral (1911-1913)
• Memorial Court at Clare College, Cambridge (1923-1934)
• Charterhouse School chapel, Godalming, the largest war memorial in England (consecrated 1927)

Battersea Power Station

• the Battersea Power Station, London (1927; famous for being on the sleeve of Pink Floyd's Animals)
• William Booth Memorial Training College, Camberwell, south London (1932)
• Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge (1934)
• the new Bodleian Library at Oxford (1936)
• the new Waterloo Bridge (1939), London
• Bankside Power Station, London (1947) (now the Tate Modern art gallery)
• ventilator shaft buildings for the Mersey Tunnel
• restoration of the war-damaged Guildhall, City of London (1954)
• chapel, Trinity College University of Toronto (1955)

He was also involved in rebuilding the Palace of Westminster after damage done during World War II and was the designer of the famous British red telephone box (1936).

External link

• Biography (http://www.stpauls-stoneycroft.org/GGScott.htm)

K2 red telephone boxes preserved as a tourist attraction near Covent Garden, London