John Oldrid Scott

(b London, 1841; d 30 May 1913). Brother of (2) George Gilbert Scott II. He entered his father's office as a pupil in 1860 and subsequently acted as his principal assistant before inheriting the practice in 1878. He showed none of the originality of his elder brother, from whom he became estranged, and he remained loyal to the architectural approach of his father. In consequence, he was remote from the changed architectural climate of the late Victorian years and suffered from criticism by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings of the several cathedral restoration projects he inherited from his father, notably at St Albans, Hereford and Selby Abbey. Perhaps John Oldrid Scott's most interesting building is the Greek Orthodox church of St Sophia (1877-9; see BYZANTINE REVIVAL) in Bayswater, London, conspicuous for being not Gothic but Byzantine in style.

Part of the Scott family

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John Oldrid Scott (1841–1913) was an English architect. He was the son of Sir George Gilbert Scott, brother to George Gilbert Scott Junior and uncle to Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, all also architects.

Works

• Hereford Cathedral west front (1902–8).^[1]
• St John the Baptist Church, Halesowen, West Midlands, Outer south aisle (1883).^[2]
• St Marys Church, Princes Risborough, Bucks: the west tower and spire were rebuilt to his design in 1907/08^[3]
• St Michael and All Angels church, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire designed by his father Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1875 shortly before his death. Building work started in 1881 under John Oldrid Scott but was never finished. Partly demolished and replaced by a new church.^[4]
• St Philip's Church, Hove, built in 1894-95.^[5]
• The Bute Hall, University of Glasgow, late nineteenth century.
• St Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Bayswater, built 1877-1879
• St Stephen's Greek Orthodox Chapel started c. 1873, in West Norwood Cemetery (Grade II* listed).
• St John the Evangelist, Palmers Green.
• St Albans Cathedral considerable restoration.
• St Giles parish church, Wendlebury, Oxfordshire, 1901: restoration.^[6]
• St George the Martyr Wolverton Sunday School & Church Institute Building, 1907/8. Creed Street Wolverton Bucks.
• St. Michael and St. George Cathedral, Grahamstown (chancel and nave, dedicated in 1912)
• University College Boathouse, Oxford. Destroyed by fire in 1999.

References

1. ^ The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1963 p146 and 153 ISBN 0-14-071025-6
2. ^ The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968 Penguin. p180
3. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus & Elizabeth Williamson: Buckinghamshire (The Buildings of England - Penguin Books. 2nd edition. 1994)
4. ^ The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968 Penguin. p271
5. ^ "Detailed Record: Church of St Philip, New Church Road (north side), Hove, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex". Images of England website. English Heritage. 2007. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=365599&mode=quick. Retrieved 2009-03-16. 
6. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Sherwood, Jennifer (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 832. ISBN 0 14 071045 0. 

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