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{{Short description|English architect (1811–1878)}}
{{Other people|Gilbert Scott|Gilbert Scott}}
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{{Infobox architect
|honorific_prefix = [[Knight Bachelor|Sir]]
|name=George Gilbert Scott
|honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|RA}}
|image=George Gilbert Scott.jpg
|caption=Sir George Gilbert Scott
|birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1811|7|13|}}
|birth_place=Parsonage, [[Gawcott]], [[Buckinghamshire]], England
|death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|1878|3|27|1811|7|13}}
|death_place=39 Courtfield Gardens, [[South Kensington]], London, England
|significant_buildings={{Nowrap|[[Wakefield Cathedral]]<br />[[Albert Memorial]]<br />[[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br />[[Midland Grand Hotel]]<br /> [[St Pancras railway station]]<br />Main building of the [[University of Glasgow]]<br />[[St. Nicholas Church, Hamburg|St Nicholas Church, Hamburg]]<br />[[St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow]]<br />[[St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal)]]<br />[[King's College London Chapel|King's College Chapel, London]]<br />[[Snaresbrook Crown Court|Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum]]}}
|awards=[[Royal Gold Medal]] (1859)
|children=5 including:<br>[[George Gilbert Scott Jr.]]<br>[[John Oldrid Scott]]<br>[[Dukinfield Henry Scott]]
}}
'''Sir George Gilbert Scott''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RA}} (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), largely known as '''Sir Gilbert Scott''', was a prolific English [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started his career as a leading designer of [[workhouse]]s. Over 800 buildings were designed or altered by him.<ref>Cole, 1980, p. 1.</ref>

Scott was the architect of many notable buildings, including the [[Midland Grand Hotel]] at [[St Pancras Station]], the [[Albert Memorial]], and the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office#History of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office main building|Foreign and Commonwealth Office]], all in London, [[St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow]], the main building of the [[University of Glasgow]], [[St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal)|St Mary's Cathedral]] in Edinburgh and [[King's College London Chapel|King's College Chapel, London]].

==Life and career==
[[File:George_Gilbert_Scott full.jpg|thumb|left|Scott in 1863]]
Born in [[Gawcott]], [[Buckingham]], Buckinghamshire, Scott was the son of the Reverend Thomas Scott (1780–1835) and grandson of the biblical commentator [[Thomas Scott (commentator)|Thomas Scott]]. He studied architecture as a pupil of [[James Edmeston]] and, from 1832 to 1834, worked as an assistant to [[Henry Roberts (architect)|Henry Roberts]]. He also worked as an assistant for his friend, [[Sampson Kempthorne]], who specialised in the design of workhouses,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?buildings/Scott.shtml |title=George Gilbert Scott (1811–1878) and William Bonython Moffatt (−1887) |date=23 April 2007 |work=The Workhouse |access-date=29 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008053005/http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?buildings%2FScott.shtml |archive-date=8 October 2007 }}</ref> a field in which Scott was to begin his independent career.<ref name="Bayley 1983, p. 43">Bayley 1983, p. 43</ref>

===Early work===
[[File:Church at Wall, Staffordshire.JPG|thumb|Parish Church of St John in [[Wall, Staffordshire]]]]
Scott's first work was built in 1833; it was a vicarage for his father in the village of [[Wappenham]], Northamptonshire. It replaced the previous vicarage occupied by other relatives of Scott. Scott went on to design several other buildings in the village.<ref>{{cite web |title=England: Northamptonshire |url=http://www.gilbertscott.org.uk/Page3/Page3Content/England/Northamptonshire.cshtml#388 |website=GilbertScott.org |access-date=20 January 2019 |archive-date=1 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701073757/http://www.gilbertscott.org.uk/Page3/Page3Content/England/Northamptonshire.cshtml#388 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In about 1835, Scott took on [[William Bonython Moffatt]] as his assistant and later (1838–1845) as his partner. Over ten years or so, Scott and Moffatt designed more than forty [[workhouse]]s in the wake of the [[Poor Law Amendment Act 1834]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Workhouse Encyclopedia |date=2014 |publisher=History P |location=Stroud, Glos |isbn=9780752477190 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=18QTDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT37 |access-date=20 January 2019}}</ref> Their first churches were [[Flaunden#St Mary Magdalene Church|St Mary Magdalene]] at Flaunden, Herts (1838, for Samuel King, Scott's uncle);<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1100432|desc=Church of St Mary Magdalene|access-date=23 January 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=9 August 2018|title=St Mary Magdalene, Flaunden|url=https://gilbertscott.org/st-mary-magdalene-flaunden/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-23|website=gilbertscott.org|language=en-GB}}</ref> St Nicholas, [[Newport, Lincoln]] (1839);<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1388727|desc=Church of St Nicholas|access-date=23 January 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=8 August 2018|title=St Nicholas's, Newport, Lincoln|url=https://gilbertscott.org/st-nicholass-newport-lincoln/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-23|website=gilbertscott.org|language=en-GB}}</ref> St John, [[Wall, Staffordshire]] (1839);<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1294770|desc=Church of St John|access-date=23 January 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> and the [[Neo-Norman architecture|Neo-Norman]] church of St Peter at [[Norbiton]], Surrey (1841).<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1358427|desc=Church of St Peter|access-date=23 January 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> They built [[HM Prison Reading|Reading Gaol]] (1841–42) in a picturesque, castellated style.<ref>Hitchcock 1977, p. 146</ref>

===Gothic Revival===
[[File:Nikolaikirche Hamburg Entwurf.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|[[St. Nicholas' Church, Hamburg|Nikolaikirche, Hamburg]], [[Germany]] (1845–80), bombed during [[World War II]] and now a ruin]]
Meanwhile, he was inspired by [[Augustus Pugin]] to participate in the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]].<ref name="Bayley 1983, p. 43"/> While still in partnership with Moffat.<ref>Hitchcock 1977, p. 152</ref> he designed the [[Martyrs' Memorial]] on [[St Giles', Oxford]] (1841),<ref>Eastlake 1872, p. 219</ref> and [[St Giles' Church, Camberwell]] (1844), both of which helped establish his reputation within the movement.

Commemorating three Protestants burnt during the reign of [[Mary I of England|Queen Mary]], the Martyrs' Memorial was intended as a rebuke to those very [[high church]] tendencies which had been instrumental in promoting the new authentic approach to Gothic architecture.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wBYNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA56|page=56|title=Oxford Studies in the History of a University Town Since 1800|first=R. C.|last=Whiting|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=1993|isbn=9780719030574}} The terms of the commission had stipulated that it should be based on the [[Waltham Cross#The Eleanor Cross|Eleanor Cross]] at Waltham</ref> St Giles' was in plan, with its long chancel, of the type advocated by the [[Ecclesiological Society]]: [[Charles Locke Eastlake]] said that "in the neighbourhood of London no church of its time was considered in purer style or more orthodox in its arrangement".<ref>Eastlake 1872, p. 220</ref> It did, however, like many churches of the time, incorporate wooden galleries, not used in medieval churches<ref name="Eastlake 1872, p. 221">Eastlake 1872, p. 221</ref> and highly disapproved of by the high church ecclesiological movement.

In 1844 he received the commission to rebuild the [[St. Nicholas' Church, Hamburg|Nikolaikirche]] in Hamburg (completed 1863), following an international competition.<ref name="Hitchcock 1977, p. 153">Hitchcock 1977, p. 153</ref> Scott's design had originally been placed third in the competition, the winner being one in a Florentine inspired style by [[Gottfried Semper]], but the decision was overturned by a faction who favoured a Gothic design.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iK7ld8-oYswC&pg=PA132|title=Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673–1968|first=Harry Francis|last= Mallgrave|publisher	=Cambridge University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780521793063}}</ref> Scott's entry had been the only design in the Gothic style.<ref name="Bayley 1983, p. 43"/>

In 1854 he remodelled the Camden Chapel in [[Camberwell]], a project in which the critic [[John Ruskin]] took a close interest and made many suggestions.  He added an apse, in a Byzantine style, integrating it to the existing plain structure by substituting a [[Barrel vault|waggon roof]] for the existing flat ceiling.<ref>{{cite book|title=Y parish of Camberwell. A brief account of the parish of Camberwell, its history and antiquities|first=William Harnett|last= Blanch|publisher=G.W. Allen|year=1875|url=https://archive.org/details/yparishofcamerwe00blanuoft}}</ref>

Scott was appointed [[Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey|architect to Westminster Abbey]] in 1849, and in 1853 he built a Gothic terraced block adjoining the abbey in Broad Sanctuary.  In 1858 he designed [[ChristChurch Cathedral]], Christchurch, New Zealand which now lies partly ruined following the [[2011 Christchurch earthquake|earthquake in 2011]] and subsequent attempts by the Anglican Church authorities to demolish it. Demolition was blocked after appeals by the people of Christchurch, and in September 2017 the Christchurch [[Diocesan Synod]] announced that the cathedral would be reinstated.<ref>{{cite web|title=Media Releases|url=http://cathedralconversations.co.nz/media-releases/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615222540/http://cathedralconversations.co.nz/media-releases/|archive-date=15 June 2020|website=Cathedral Conversations|publisher=Anglican Diocese of Christchurch}}</ref>

The choir stalls at [[Lancing College]] in Sussex, which Scott designed with Walter Tower, were among many examples of his work that incorporated the [[Green Man]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hayman |first=Richard |date=April 2010 |title=Ballad of the Green Man |journal=[[History Today]] |volume=60 |issue=4 }}</ref>

Later, Scott went beyond copying mediaeval English Gothic for his Victorian Gothic or Gothic Revival buildings, and began to introduce features from other styles and European countries as evidenced in his Midland red-brick construction, the Midland Grand Hotel at London's St Pancras Station, from which approach Scott believed a new style might emerge.

[[File:Catherine Parr's tomb in St Mary's Chapel, Sudeley Castle (5063).jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Tomb of [[Catherine Parr]], designed by Gilbert Scott]]
In 1863, after restoration of the chapel at [[Sudeley Castle]], the remains of Queen [[Catherine Parr]] were placed in a new neo-Gothic canopied tomb designed by Gilbert Scott<ref>{{cite book |last=Tomaini |first=Thea |date=2017 |title=The Corpse as Text: Disinterment and Antiquarian Enquiry, 1700-1900 |location=Gloucestershire |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |page=152 |isbn=9781782049517 }}</ref> and created by sculptor [[John Birnie Philip]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Murray |first=John |date=1872 |title=A Handbook for Travellers in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Herefordshire |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLaMuyFN-bQC&pg=PA163 |location=Gloucestershire |publisher= |page=163 |isbn= }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://royalcentral.co.uk/features/the-english-queen-buried-amidst-a-castle-garden-154737/ |title=The English queen buried amidst a castle garden |date=15 January 2021 |work=Royal Centre |access-date=7 March 2021 |quote=a new tomb, carved by John Birnie Philip, and featuring a full-length [[tomb effigy]] of her. Her crest along with those of her four husbands are on the tomb while on the wall next to it is a plaque commemorating the words found on her coffin.}}</ref>

Between 1864 and 1876, the [[Albert Memorial]], designed by Scott, was constructed in [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]]. It was a commission on behalf of [[Queen Victoria]] in memory of her husband, [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]].

Scott advocated the use of Gothic architecture for secular buildings, rejecting what he called "the absurd supposition that Gothic architecture is exclusively and intrinsically ecclesiastical."<ref name="Eastlake 1872, p. 221"/> He was the winner of a competition to design new buildings in [[Whitehall]] to house the Foreign Office and War Office. Before work began, however, the administration which had approved his plans went out of office. Palmerston, the new Prime Minister, objected to Scott's use of the Gothic, and the architect – after some resistance – drew up new plans in a more acceptable style.<ref>Eastlake 1872, pp. 311– 2</ref>

Scott designed the memorial to [[Thomas Clarkson]] in [[Wisbech]], where his brother Rev John Scott was vicar. The [[Clarkson Memorial]] was completed after his death under the direction of his son John in 1881.<ref>{{cite news|title= Wisbech and the Slave Emancipator|newspaper= Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal |date= 12 November 1881|page= 6}}</ref>

==Honours==
[[File:GGScottWindow.jpg|alt=Commemorative Window in the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey, London|thumb|Commemorative window in the [[Chapter House]] of [[Westminster Abbey]], London]]
Scott was awarded the [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]]'s [[Royal Gold Medal]] in 1859. He was appointed an Honorary Liveryman of the [[Turners' Company]]; and on 9 August 1872 he was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]], choosing the style Sir Gilbert Scott.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23886 |date=13 August 1872 |page=3638 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=George Gilbert |last=Scott |title=Personal and Professional Recollections |location=London |publisher=Sampson Low |year=1879 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000453464 |page=[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002013741997&view=2up&seq=356&skin=2021 328] }}</ref> He died in 1878 and is buried in [[Westminster Abbey]].

A [[London County Council]] "[[blue plaque]]" (in fact brown) was placed in 1910 to mark Scott's residence at the [[Admiral's House, Hampstead|Admiral's House]] on Admiral's Walk in [[Hampstead]].<ref name="EngHet">{{cite web |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/george-gilbert-scott/ |title=Blue Plaques: Scott, Sir George Gilbert (1811–1878) |publisher=English Heritage |access-date=8 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/harriyott/4625043444/|title=Sir George Gilbert Scott|work=Flickr|date=20 May 2010}}</ref>

==Family==
Scott married Caroline Oldrid of [[Boston, Lincolnshire|Boston]] in 1838. Two of his sons [[George Gilbert Scott, Jr.]] (founder of [[Watts & Co.|Watts & Company]] in 1874) and [[John Oldrid Scott]], and his grandson [[Giles Gilbert Scott]], were also prominent architects.<ref name="Allinson">{{cite book |first=Kenneth |last=Allinson |title=Architects and Architecture of London |url={{Google books |a0AX0-yvYVMC|page=164&|plainurl=true}}|page=164 |date=24 September 2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136429644}}</ref> His third son, photographer, Albert Henry Scott (1844–65) died at the age of twenty-one; George Gilbert designed his funerary monument in [[St Peter's Church, Petersham]], whilst he was living at The Manor House at Ham in Richmond.<ref name="Scott listing">{{National Heritage List for England |num=1380183|desc=Tomb of Albert Henry Scott in the Churchyard of St Peter's Church|access-date=22 January 2016}}</ref> His fifth and youngest son was the botanist [[Dukinfield Henry Scott]].<ref>{{cite ODNB |first1=Agnes |last1=Arber |author-link1=Agnes Arber |first2=Alexander |last2=Goldbloom |id=35984|title=Scott, Dukinfield Henry}}</ref> He was also great-uncle of the architect [[Elisabeth Scott]].<ref name="odnb">{{cite ODNB |last=Stamp |first=Gavin |author-link=Gavin Stamp|year=2004 |id=24869 |title=Scott, Elisabeth Whitworth (1898–1972), architect}}</ref>

==Pupils==
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Scott's success attracted a large number of pupils and many would go on to have successful careers of their own, not always as architects. Some notable pupils are as follows, their time in Scott's office shown after their name: [[Hubert Austin]] (1868), [[Joseph Maltby Bignell]] (1859–78), [[George Frederick Bodley]] (1845–56), [[Charles Buckeridge]] (1856–57), [[Somers Clarke]] (1865), [[William Henry Crossland]] (dates uncertain), [[C. Hodgson Fowler]] (1856–60), [[Thomas Garner]] (1856–61), [[Thomas Graham Jackson]] (1858–61), [[John Thomas Micklethwaite|John T. Micklethwaite]] (1862–69), [[Benjamin Mountfort]] (1841–46), [[John Norton (architect)|John Norton]] (1870–78), [[George Gilbert Scott, Jr.]] (1856–63), [[John Oldrid Scott]] (1858–78), [[J. J. Stevenson]] (1858–60), [[George Edmund Street]] (1844–49), and [[William White (architect, born 1825)|William White]] (1845–47).

==Books==
*{{cite book |title=Remarks on secular & domestic architecture, present & future |year=1857 |publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] |location=London |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000410737}}
*{{cite book |title=A Plea for the Faithful Restoration of our Ancient Churches |year=1859 |publisher=James Parker |location=Oxford |url=https://archive.org/details/pleaforfaithfulr00scot/page/n3/mode/2up}}
*{{cite book |title=Gleanings from Westminster Abbey / by George Gilbert Scott, with Appendices Supplying Further Particulars, and Completing the History of the Abbey Buildings, by W. Burges |orig-year=1861 |year=1863 |edition=2nd enlarged |publisher=John Henry and James Parker |location=Oxford |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011606344}}
*{{cite book |title= Personal and Professional Recollections |year=1879 |publisher=[[Sampson Low]] & Co |location=London |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000453464}}
*{{cite book |title=Lectures on the Rise and Development of Medieval Architecture |year=1879 |volume=I |publisher=John Murray |location=London}}
*{{cite book |title=Lectures on the Rise and Development of Medieval Architecture |year=1879 |volume=II |publisher=John Murray |location=London}} [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/004020676 online texts for vols. I & II]

Additionally he wrote over forty pamphlets and reports. As well as publishing articles, letters, lectures and reports in ''[[Building (magazine)|The Builder]]'', ''The Ecclesiologist'', ''The Building News'', ''The British Architect'', ''The Civil Engineer's and Architect's Journal'', ''[[The Illustrated London News]]'', ''[[The Times]]'' and ''Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects''.

==Architectural work==
{{see also|Category:George Gilbert Scott buildings and structures}}
[[File:St Pancras Railway Station 2012-06-23.jpg|thumb|Although he is best known for his [[Gothic revival]] churches, Scott felt that the [[Midland Grand Hotel]] at [[St Pancras railway station|St Pancras station]] was his most successful project]]
[[File:Bombay University Convocation Hall in the 1870s.jpg|thumb|Scott designed the [[Convocation Hall, University of Mumbai|Mumbai University Convocation Hall]] (1870), working from London, and it is now part of the [[UNESCO World Heritage Site]]]]
[[File:Snaresbrook Crown Court.jpg|thumb|Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum (1842), now Snaresbrook Crown Court]]
His projects include:

===Public buildings===
*Workhouse in [[Winslow, Buckinghamshire]] (1835)
*Workhouses (1836) in: [[Amesbury]], Wiltshire; [[Buckingham]], Buckinghamshire; [[Kettering]], Northamptonshire; [[Northampton]], Northamptonshire; [[Oundle]], Northamptonshire; [[Tiverton, Devon]]; [[Totnes]], Devon; [[Towcester]], Northamptonshire
*Workhouse in [[Guildford]], Surrey (1836–38)
*Workhouses (1837) in: [[Bideford]], Devon; [[Boston, Lincolnshire]]; [[Clutton, Somerset]]; [[Flax Bourton]], Somerset; [[Gloucester]], Gloucestershire; [[Liskeard]], Cornwall; [[Newton Abbot]], Devon; [[Spilsby|Hundleby]], Lincolnshire; [[Tavistock, Devon]]
*The workhouse in [[Loughborough]], Leicestershire (1837–38)
*Workhouses (1838) in: [[Amersham]], Buckinghamshire;<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://yooniqimages.com/images/detail/102163474/Creative/a-view-of-amersham-infirmary-formerly-the-workhouse-whielden-street-amersham-buckinghamshire-designed-by-george-gilbert-scott-and-william-bonython-moffatt-erected-1838 |title=A view of Amersham Infirmary (Formerly the workhouse), Whielden Street, Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Designed by George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt, erected 1838. - YOONIQ Images - Stock photos, Illustrations & Video footage |access-date=13 December 2015 |archive-date=22 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222133424/https://yooniqimages.com/images/detail/102163474/Creative/a-view-of-amersham-infirmary-formerly-the-workhouse-whielden-street-amersham-buckinghamshire-designed-by-george-gilbert-scott-and-william-bonython-moffatt-erected-1838 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Belper]], Derbyshire; [[Great Dunmow]], Essex; [[Lichfield]], Staffordshire; [[Mere, Wiltshire]]; [[Penzance]], Cornwall; [[Redruth]], Cornwall
*Workhouse (1838); [[Williton]], Somerset<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Williton/|title=The Workhouse in Williton, Somerset|first=Peter|last=Higginbotham|website=www.workhouses.org.uk|access-date=3 February 2018}}</ref> and 'sister design' [[Witham]], Essex
*Workhouses (1839) in: [[Billericay]], Essex; [[Bedworth]], Warwickshire; [[Edmonton, London]]; [[Louth, Lincolnshire]]; [[Newcastle-under-Lyme]], Staffordshire; [[Old Windsor]], Berkshire; [[St Austell]], Cornwall; [[Uttoxeter]], Staffordshire
*[[Buckingham Old Gaol|Buckingham Gaol]] extension and alterations (1839) in: [[Buckingham]], Buckinghamshire
*The workhouse in [[Lutterworth]], Leicestershire (1839–40)
*School and Master's House, [[Hartshill, Staffordshire|Hartshill]], [[Stoke on Trent]] (1840)
*[[Snaresbrook Crown Court|Infant Orphan Asylum]], [[Wanstead]], Essex (1841–43)
*[[Martyrs' Memorial]], [[Oxford]] (1841–43)
*[[Reading (HM Prison)|Reading Gaol]], Berkshire (1842–44)
*Lunatic Asylum, [[Shelton, Shropshire]] (1843)
*The workhouse, [[Macclesfield]], Cheshire (1843)
*[[Clifton Hospital|Lunatic Asylum]], [[Clifton, York]] (1845)
*Lunatic Asylum, [[Wells, Somerset]] (1845)
*Astbury School and Masters House Congleton (1848)
*Christ Church School, [[Alsager]], Cheshire (1848)<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Sutton |editor-first=James C |title=Alsager the Place and its People |year=1999 |publisher=Alsager History Research Group |location=Alsager |isbn=0-9536363-0-5 |page=not cited}}</ref>
*[[Brighton College]], Sussex (1848–1866)
*[[Sandbach School]], [[Sandbach]], Cheshire (1849)
*School, [[Trefnant]], Denbighshire (''c.'' 1855)
*School, [[Tysoe]], Warwickshire (1856)
[[File:Sandbach Literary Institute.jpg|thumb|[[Sandbach#Landmarks|Sandbach Literary Institution]] (1857)]]
*[[Sandbach#Landmarks|Literary Institution]], Sandbach (1857)<ref>John Parsons Earwaker, "The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach", 1890, ([https://archive.org/stream/historyofancient00earw#page/86/mode/2up/search/Gilbert+Scott p. 86])</ref>
*Crimea War Memorial, [[Westminster School]], Broad Sanctuary, [[Westminster]] (1858)
*School, [[Ashley, Northamptonshire|Ashley]], Northamptonshire (1858)
*The Vaughan Library, [[Harrow School]], Middlesex (1861–63)
*[[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]], [[Whitehall]], London (1861–1868)
*[[Fitzroy House|Fitzroy Memorial Library]], [[Lewes]], East Sussex (1862)<ref>{{NHLE|num=1043859|desc=Fitzroy Memorial Library, High Street, Lewes|grade=II|access-date=17 March 2023}}</ref>
*[[Preston Town Hall]], Lancashire (1862–67), destroyed by fire in 1947
[[File:University of Glasgow Gilbert Scott Building - Feb 2008.jpg|thumb|The [[University of Glasgow]]'s main building (1870)]]
*[[Old Schools]], [[Cambridge]] (1864–67)
*[[Leeds General Infirmary]] (1864–67)
*The [[Albert Memorial]], London (1864–72); in the podium frieze, one of the images of architects, sculpted by [[John Birnie Philip]] shows Scott himself
*[[Midland Grand Hotel]], [[St Pancras Station]], London (1865)
*[[McManus Galleries]] – formerly the Albert Institute, [[Dundee]] (1865–69)
*The School, [[Great Dunmow]], Essex (1866)
[[File:Panoramic view of Brill's swimming bath, Brighton. Lithograp Wellcome V0012261.jpg|thumb|Panoramic view of Brill's swimming bath, Brighton. Lithograph by J. Drayton Wyatt]]
*Brill Swimming Baths, [[Brighton]] (1866–69), demolished 1929
*[[Clifton Hampden Bridge]], Oxfordshire (1867)
*The library of the Grammar School (now [[Hall Cross Academy|Hall Cross School]]) in [[Doncaster]] (1868)
*Market Cross, [[Helmsley]], Yorkshire (1869)
*School [[Nocton]], Lincolnshire (1869)
*Extension to [[Radcliffe Infirmary]], Oxford (1869–71)
*Lincoln's Inn, London, Library extension (1870–72), New Chambers Block A (1873) and New Chambers Block B (1876–78)
*The main building of the new campus of the [[University of Glasgow]] (1870), often called the Gilbert Scott Building
*Savernake Hospital, Wiltshire (1871–72)
*Gatehouse to Ramsgate Cemetery, Kent (1872)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-171712-gate-house-to-cemetery-about-50-metres-s | title=Gate House to Cemetery About 50 Metres South of Cemetery Chapel, with Side Walls, Ramsgate |website =www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk |access-date=21 February 2014 }}</ref>
*The University Senate Hall, [[University of Mumbai|Mumbai University]] (1869–74)
* The University Library and [[Rajabai Clock Tower]], Mumbai University (1869–78)
*The [[Clarkson Memorial]] in [[Wisbech]]. Scott first put forward designs in 1875, but work did not start until 1880. The eventual design was a slightly altered version of Scott's original design.

===Domestic buildings===
*Vicarage, [[Wappenham]], Northamptonshire (1833)
*16 High Street, [[Chesham]], Buckinghamshire (1835)
*Vicarage, [[Dinton, Buckinghamshire|Dinton]], Buckinghamshire (1836)
*Rectory, [[Weston Turville]], Buckinghamshire (1838)
*Parsonage, [[Blakesley]], Northamptonshire (1839)
*Parsonage, Hartshill, [[Stoke on Trent]] (1840)
*[[Snaresbrook Crown Court|Wanstead Infant Orphanage Asylum]], [[London Borough of Redbridge]] (1841)
*Seaman's Houses, [[Whitby]], Yorkshire (1842)
*Workers Houses, Hartshill, Stoke on Trent (1842–48)
*Parsonage, [[Clifton Hampden]], Oxfordshire (1843–46)
*Trotter's almshouses, [[Ridge, Hertfordshire|Ridge]], Hertfordshire (1844) (with [[William Bonython Moffatt|W.B. Moffatt]])<ref>{{NHLE |desc=Orchard Mead, Ridge |num=1103540 |access-date=2023-07-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Geograph:: Former almshouses, Ridge, Hertfordshire © Jim Osley cc-by-sa/2.0 |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5400050 |access-date=2023-07-16 |website=www.geograph.org.uk}}</ref>
*Parsonage, Barnet, [[Hertford]] (1845)
*Parsonage, St Mark's, [[Swindon]] (''c.'' 1846)
*Parsonage, [[Wembley]], Middlesex (1846)
*Parsonage, [[Weeton, North Yorkshire|Weeton]], North Yorkshire (''c.'' 1852)
*Houses Broad Sanctuary, [[Westminster]] (1852–54)
*Parsonage, [[St Paul's, Cambridge]] (1853–54), now [[Cambridge Muslim College]]<ref name=Pevsner>{{cite book |last1=Bradley |first1=Simon |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |title=The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire |date=2014 |page=296 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-20596-1}}</ref>
*Parsonage, St Mary's, [[Stoke Newington]], London (''c.'' 1855)
*All Souls' Vicarage, [[Halifax, West Yorkshire|Halifax]], Yorkshire (''c.'' 1856)
*Cottages, [[Ilam, Staffordshire]] (''c.'' 1857)
*Almshouses, Hartshill, Stoke on Trent (1857)
*[[Lanhydrock House]], near [[Bodmin]], Cornwall (1857) an Elizabethan mansion rebuilt after a fire, formal gardens assisted by [[Richard Coad]]
*Parsonage, [[Kilkhampton]], Cornwall (''c.'' 1858)
*The Vicarage, [[Leafield]], Oxfordshire (1858)<ref>{{NHLE|num=1053456|desc=The Vicarage|access-date=17 April 2022}}</ref>
*[[Walton Hall, Warwickshire]] (1858)
*[[Treverbyn Vean]], [[St Neot, Cornwall|St Neot]], Cornwall (1858–62)
*Parsonage, [[Ashley, Northamptonshire|Ashley]], Northamptonshire (1858)
*Claydon House, Buckinghamshire (1859)
*Parsonage, [[Bridge, Kent|Bridge]], Kent (''c.'' 1859)
*Vicarage, [[Ranmore Common]], Surrey (''c.'' 1859)
*[[Kelham Hall]], Nottinghamshire (1859–62)
*Workers' housing at [[Akroydon]], Halifax (1859)
*Almshouses, Sandbach (1860)<ref>"[[:File:Sandbach Almshouses Foundation Plaque.jpg|Sandbach Almshouses Foundation Plaque]]", Wikipedia Commons</ref>
*[[Holy Trinity Church, Trefnant|Parsonage]], [[Trefnant]], Denbighshire (1860)
*Lee Priory, [[Littlebourne]], Kent, alterations and additions (1860–63) demolished
*Rectory, [[Higham, Forest Heath]], Suffolk (''c.'' 1861)
*Kingston Grange, [[Kingston St Mary]], Somerset for Mr Perkins (''c.'' 1861)
*Parsonage, St Andrew's, [[Leicester]] (''c.'' 1861)
*Hartland Abbey (c.1851) supervised by Richard Coad, built by Pulsman of [[Barnstaple]]
*[[Hafodunos]], [[Llangernyw]], North Wales (1861–1866)
*Vicarage, Jarrom Street, Leicester (1862)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/52113968/|title=Vicarage, Jarrom Street|work=Flickr|date=10 October 2005}}</ref>
*Nos 1,3 & 3a [[Dean's Yard]], Westminster (1862)
*Parsonage, [[Leith]], Midlothian (1862)
*[[Brownsover Hall]], Warwickshire, date uncertain (''c.'' 1860)
*Two lodge houses at [[Great Barr Hall]], near [[Birmingham]] (pre-1863)
*The Master's House, [[St John's College, Cambridge]] (1863)
*Parsonage, Christ Church, [[Ottershaw]], Surrey (''c.'' 1864)
*Stony House, former Vicarage of St Mary the Virgin Church, London Road, [[Stony Stratford]] (1865)
*Parsonage, St Luke's, [[Weaste]], Lancashire (''c.'' 1865)
*Schools Master's House, Ashley, Northamptonshire (1865)
*Almshouses, [[Winchcombe]], Gloucestershire (1865)
*Rectory, [[Tydd St Giles]], Cambridgeshire (1868)
*Vicarage, Higham Green, Suffolk
*Parsonage, [[Mirfield]], Yorkshire (1869)
*Polwhele House, [[Truro]], Cornwall, additions (''c.'' 1870)
*Vicarage, [[Hillesden]], Buckinghamshire (1871)
*St Mary's Homes, [[Godstone]] (1872)
*Scott's Building, [[King's College, Cambridge]] (1873)
*Parsonage, St Michael's, [[New Southgate]], Middlesex (''c.'' 1874)
*Parsonage, St Saviour's, [[Leicester]] (1875)
*Parsonage, [[Low Fulney|Fulney]], Lincolnshire (1877–80)
*New Court, [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]] (1881)
* Garboldisham Hall, [[Garboldisham]], [[Norfolk]] (1822)

===Church buildings===

[[File:Cambridge University, St John's College Chapel, by George Gilbert Scott, 1866-1869.jpg|thumb|upright|St John's College Chapel, Cambridge (1866–1869)]]
*[[St Mark's Church, Ladywood]] (1840–41) (demolished 1947)
*[[St Giles' Church, Camberwell|St Giles' Church]], Camberwell, London (1841–44)
*Christ Church, Bridlington (1840–41)
*[[St Mary's Church, Hanwell|St Mary's Church]], [[Hanwell]], Middlesex (1841)<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Reynolds |editor-first=Susan |series=[[Victoria County History]] |title=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington |year=1962 |pages=230–33 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22345&strquery=Hanwell |access-date=21 July 2007}}</ref>
*[[Holy Trinity, Hulme]] (1841)
*St Peter's Church, [[Norbiton]], Surrey (1841)
*Holy Trinity Church, Hartshill, Stoke on Trent (1842)
*St John the Baptist's Church, St John's, Woking, Surrey (1842)
*[[St John the Baptist Church, Beeston]], Nottinghamshire (1842)
*[[St Michael and All Angels Church, Wood Green]] (1843)
*[[St John the Baptist's Church, Leenside, Nottingham]] (1843–44)
*[[Holy Trinity Church, Halstead]], Essex (1843–44)
*St John the Evangelist, [[West Meon]], Hampshire (1843–46)
*[[St Mark's Church, Worsley]], Greater Manchester (1844–46)
*St John the Evangelist, Wembley, Middlesex (1846)
*[[Church of St Matthias, Malvern Link|St Matthias, Malvern Link]], Worcestershire (1844–46)<ref>{{cite book|last=Bridges|first=Tim|title=Churches of Worcestershire|publisher=Logaston Press|edition=2nd|date=2005|page=157|isbn=1-904396-39-9}}</ref>
*[[St Mark's Church, Swindon]] (1845)
*St Matthew’s Church, [[Donnington Wood]], [[Telford]], Shropshire (1845)
*[[St. Nikolai, Hamburg|St Nikolai, Hamburg]] (1845–80), the tallest building in the world from 1874 to 1876
* Memorial Chapel, [[Bromsgrove School]]
*[[Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (St. John's)|The Cathedral of St John the Baptist]] in [[St. John's, Newfoundland|St John's, Newfoundland]] (1847, construction overseen by apprentice [[William Hay (architect)|William Hay]])
*St Mary the Virgin, [[Aylesbury]] (1848)
*St Gregory's Church, Canterbury (1848)
*St Paul's Church, Canterbury (1848)
*St Cwyfan, Tudweiliog, Gwynedd (1849)
*[[Christ Church, Swindon]], Wiltshire (1851)<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1283770|desc=Christ Church, Cricklade Street, Swindon|access-date=30 March 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>
*St Peter's Church, [[South Croydon]] (1851)
*[[Emmanuel Church, Forest Gate]], London (1852)
*[[Church of St John the Baptist, Eastnor|St John's Church]], [[Eastnor, Herefordshire]] (1852) and Monument (1855)<ref>Pevsner, 1963, pp. 122–123</ref>
*All Saints' Church, Watford, Hertfordshire (1853)
*St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Dundee (1853) (cathedral since 1905)
*[[St Mary's Church, West Derby, Liverpool]] (1853–6)
*All Saints' Church, Sherbourne, Warwick (1854)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sherbournepark.com/weddings/church.php|title=Sherbourne Park |work=sherbournepark.com}}</ref>
*Christ Church, Lee Park, Kent (1854) (bombed 1941, demolished 1944)
*St John the Evangelist, Shirley, Surrey (1854)
*[[Holy Trinity Church, Coventry]] (1854)
*St Paul's Church, Chippenham (1854–55)
*Chapel of [[Exeter College, Oxford]] (1854–60)
*[[Holy Trinity Church, Trefnant]] (1855)
*[[St John's Church, Bilton]], Harrogate (1855)
*St Mary, [[Hayes, Bromley|Hayes]], Kent (alterations) (1856–62)
*St Peter, [[Bushley]], Worcestershire: roof (1856)<ref>Pevsner, 1968, p. 113</ref>
*St Mary, [[Tedstone Delamere]], Herefordshire: chancel (1856–57)<ref>Pevsner, 1963, p. 299</ref>
*[[St George's Minster, Doncaster]] (1858)
* St Mary New Church, [[Stoke Newington]] (1858)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Weinreb, Ben |author2=[[Christopher Hibbert|Hibbert, Christopher]] |title=[[The London Encyclopaedia]] |edition=reprint |year=1992 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |page=610}}</ref>
*[[St Matthias Church, Richmond]], London (1858)
*[[All Souls Church, Halifax]] (1859)
*[[St Thomas's Church, Huddersfield]] (1859)
*St Michael and All Angels Church, [[Leafield]], Oxfordshire (1859–60)<ref>Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, p. 682</ref>
*[[St Matthew's Church, Stretton]], Cheshire (1859 and 1867)
*St Matthew's Church, [[Yiewsley]], [[Hillingdon]] (1859)
*St Mary, [[Edvin Loach]], Herefordshire (?1860)<ref>Pevsner, 1963, p. 126</ref>
*Christ Church, [[Wanstead]], Essex (1861)
*St Stephen's Church, Higham Green, Suffolk (1861)
*St John the Evangelist, Sandbach Heath (1861)<ref>John Parsons Earwaker, "The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach", 1890, ([https://archive.org/stream/historyofancient00earw#page/n119/mode/2up/search/Gilbert+Scott p. 87])</ref>
*All Saints' Church, [[Hawkhurst]], Kent (1861)
*St Andrews, Jarrom Street, Leicester (1862)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Leicester_St_Andrew|title=Leicester St Andrew - Learn - FamilySearch.org|work=familysearch.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://fdweb.leicester.gov.uk/planning/fdweb/Image.aspx?pbfc=763|title=Error|work=leicester.gov.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kairos-press.co.uk/html/a_church_on_jarrom_street__st_.html|title=A Church on Jarrom Street: St Andrew's, Leicester|website=www.kairos-press.co.uk|access-date=3 February 2018}}</ref>
*The [[Hereford Screen]] (1862), [[choir screen]] from Hereford Cathedral, now restored and in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], London
*Chapel of [[Wellington College, Berkshire]] (1861–63)<ref>{{NHLE |desc= Chapel At Wellington College With Porch Colonnade And Gateway Adjoining West End |num= 1390357 |access-date=24 April 2017}}</ref>
*All Saints' Church, [[Langton Green]], Kent (1862–63)<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1240546|access-date=23 March 2012}}</ref>
*[[St Barnabas' Church, Bromborough]], Merseyside (1862–64)
*St Andrew's Hospital Chapel, Northampton (1863)
*[[St John the Evangelist, Taunton]] (1863)
*St Clement's Church, [[Barnsbury]] (1864–65)<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num=1298052 |desc=Former Church of St Clement, Barnsbury |access-date=20 December 2021 |fewer-links=yes}}</ref> (closed 1976 and converted into flats)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Willats|first=Eric A.|title=Streets with a story : the book of Islington|date=1987|publisher=[Islington Local History Education Trust]|isbn=0-9511871-0-4|location=[London]|oclc=18221322}}</ref>
*[[St Andrew's Church, Derby]] (1864–67)<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=St Andrew's Church, London Road, Litchurch |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000052/18640330/036/0008 |newspaper=Derby Mercury |location=England |date=30 March 1864 |access-date=4 June 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription  }}</ref>
*St Andrew's Church, [[Uxbridge]] (1865)
*[[St John the Baptist, Penshurst]] (1865)
*[[St Luke's Church, Pendleton]] (1865)<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1386145|access-date=3 September 2014}}</ref>
*St Stephen & St Mark, Lewisham (1865)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/154bp|title=Lewisham, St Stephen with St Mark – East Lewisham Deanery – The Diocese of Southwark|work=anglican.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513011910/http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/154bp|archive-date=13 May 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*St Mary's Church, [[Shackleford]], Surrey (1865)
*[[St Edmund's Church, Salisbury]]: restoration including rebuilding of chancel (1865–67)<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1355852|desc=Former church of St Edmund|access-date=9 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> (now an arts centre)
*[[St Matthew's Church, Leicester]] (1865–67)
*St Denys Church, Southampton (1868)
*St Stephen's Church, Higham Green, Suffolk (1868)
*St James' Church, [[Cradley, Herefordshire]] Chancel (1868)<ref>Pevsner, 1963, p. 106</ref>
*[[Holy Trinity Church, Shanghai]] (1866–69)
*[[St Peter's Church, Edensor]], Derbyshire (1867–70)
*[[St Mary's Church, Mirfield|St Mary's Church]], [[Mirfield]] (1869–1871)
*[[Ramsgate]] Cemetery Chapel, Kent (1869)<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1348349|desc=Cemetery Chapels, Ramsgate|access-date=20 December 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>
*All Saints' church, [[Ryde]], Isle of Wight (1872)
*[[St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Chester]] (1872)<ref>A short history of our church building by Ian Thomas (Parish Magazine September 2010)</ref>
*St Peter and St Paul, Priory Church [[Leominster]], Herefordshire Quatrefoil piers (1872–79)<ref>Pevsner, 1963, p. 226</ref>
*[[St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow|The Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin, Glasgow]] (1873)<ref name="GlasArch">{{cite web|title=St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral Glasgow|url=http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/st_marys_episcopal_cathedral.htm|work=Glasgow Architecture|date=22 October 2010|access-date=31 August 2012}}</ref>
*St Thomas, [[Green Hammerton]], N. Yorkshire, 1874–76<ref>Pevsner, N et al.: The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, rev.ed. 1967, p.226</ref>
*[[Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon]] (additions) (1875)
*[[St Saviour's Church, Leicester]] (1875–77)
*[[All Souls, Blackman Lane]], [[Leeds]] (1879) – his last work, a large lancet-style church
*St Mary The Virgin, [[Speldhurst]], Kent (1879)
*[[St Michael and St George Cathedral, Grahamstown|St Michael and St George Cathedral]], [[Grahamstown]] (tower and spire completed in 1879)
*St Paul's Church, [[Low Fulney]], [[Spalding, Lincolnshire]] (completed 1880)<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1306702|desc=Church of St Paul including attached former Sunday schoolroom |grade=I}}</ref>
*[[Church of St Michael and All Angels, Stourport|St Michael, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire]]: designed (1875), started (1881) by son [[John Oldrid Scott]], never finished and partly demolished<ref>Pevsner, 1968, p. 271</ref>
*[[ChristChurch Cathedral]], Christchurch, New Zealand
[[File:StJohnsCambChapel02.jpg|thumb|right|The chapel of [[St John's College, Cambridge]] is characteristic of Scott's many church designs]]
*[[Busbridge Church|St John the Baptist Church, Busbridge]], [[Godalming]], Surrey
*[[St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal)]]
*St Mary's Church, [[Mirfield]], West Yorkshire
*St Mary, [[Timsbury, Somerset]]<ref>{{NHLE |num=1129594 |desc=Church of St Mary the Virgin |access-date=29 September 2007}}</ref>
*St Nicholas's, Newport, [[Lincoln, Lincolnshire]]
*St Peter's Church, [[Elworth]], Cheshire
*Christ The Saviour, [[Ealing]], London
*Christ Church, [[Ramsgate]], Kent
*[[St Lawrence's Church, St Lawrence|St Lawrence's Church]], [[St Lawrence, Isle of Wight]] (1878)

===Restorations===

====Churches====
Scott was involved in major [[Victorian restoration|restorations]] of medieval church architecture, all across England.
* [[St Peter and St Paul, Buckingham|Church of St Peter and St Paul]], [[Buckingham]], [[Buckinghamshire]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Clarke |first=John |title=The Book of Buckingham |year=1984 |publisher=Barracuda Books |location=Buckingham |isbn=0-86023-072-4 |page=145}}</ref>
* [[All Saints' Church, Hillesden|All Saints' Church]], [[Hillesden]], [[Buckinghamshire]] (1874–75)
* [[Church of St Mary the Less, Cambridge|Church of St Mary the Less]], [[Cambridge]], Cambridgeshire (1856–57)
*St John the Baptist Church, [[Upton Bishop]], Herefordshire (1862)<ref>Pevsner, 1963, p. 304</ref>
* [[St Mary's Church, Halton|St Mary's Church]], [[Halton, Runcorn|Halton]], Cheshire (1852)
* [[St John the Baptist Church, Halesowen]], West Midlands (1875)
* [[St Peter's Church, Prestbury|St Peter's Church]], [[Prestbury, Cheshire|Prestbury]], Cheshire (1879–1881)
* [[St Mary's Church, Sandbach|St Mary's Church]], [[Sandbach]], [[Cheshire]] (1847)<ref> Earwaker, J. P. (1890). "The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach". https://archive.org/stream/historyofancient00earw#page/28/mode/2up/search/Gilbert+Scott p. 28. </ref>
* [[St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington|St Cuthbert's Church]], [[Darlington]], [[County Durham]] (1864–65)<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The Restoration of St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000242/18651215/018/0003 |newspaper=Newcastle Journal |location=England |date=15 December 1865 |access-date=30 December 2019 |via=British Newspaper Archive }}</ref>
* [[Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield|Church of St Mary and All Saints]], [[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]], [[Derbyshire]] (1843)
* Church of St John the Baptist, [[Danbury, Essex|Danbury]], [[Essex]] (1866–67)<ref> Kerwin, M. S. and Griffin, G. ''Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Danbury''. pp.33–4.</ref>
* [[St Mary Abbots]], [[Kensington]], [[Greater London]] (1872)
* [[St Margaret's, Westminster|St Margaret's Church]], [[Westminster]], Greater London (1877–78)
* Church of St John the Baptist, [[Aconbury]], [[Herefordshire]] (1863)<ref>Pevsner, 1963, p. 63</ref>
* St Leonard's Church, [[Yarpole]], Herefordshire (1864)<ref>Pevsner, 1963, p. 327</ref>
* St Mary's Church, [[Bishopsbourne]], [[Kent]] (1871)
* St Paul's Church, [[Canterbury]], Kent (1860s)
* [[St Wulfram's Church, Grantham|St Wulfram's Church]], [[Grantham]], [[Lincolnshire]] (1866–75)
* [[All Saints Church, Winterton|All Saints' Church]], [[Winterton, Lincolnshire|Winterton]], [[Lincolnshire]] (1867)<ref name=har>{{Citation| url = https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/search-register/list-entry/23430| title = Church of All Saints, Winterton| access-date = 13 August 2018| publisher = [[Historic England]]| archive-date = 14 August 2018| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180814232822/https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/search-register/list-entry/23430| url-status = dead}}</ref>
* [[St Mary and St Nicolas, Spalding|Church of St Mary and St Nicholas]], [[Spalding, Lincolnshire|Spalding]], Lincolnshire (1865-7)
* All Saints' Church, [[East Winch]], [[Norfolk]] (1878)<ref>{{NHLE |desc=Church of All Saints, East Winch |num=1342382 |access-date=2025-01-16 }}</ref>
* [[King's Lynn Minster|St Margaret's Church]], [[King's Lynn]], Norfolk (1875)
* [[St Peter's Church, Northampton|St Peter's Church]], [[Northampton]], [[Northamptonshire]] (1849-1851)
* St Andrew's Church, [[Spratton]], Northamptonshire (1847)
* [[Church of St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent|Church of St Mary Magdalene]], [[Newark-on-Trent]], [[Nottinghamshire]] (1850s)
* [[St Mary's Church, Nottingham|St Mary's Church]], [[Nottingham]], Nottinghamshire (1850s)
* Church of St Mary Magdalene, [[Duns Tew]], [[Oxfordshire]] (1861–62)
* [[All Saints' Church, Oakham|All Saints' Church]], [[Oakham]], [[Rutland]] (1857–1858)
* [[Church of St John the Baptist, Glastonbury|Church of St John the Baptist]], [[Glastonbury]], [[Somerset]] (1850s)
* Church of St Mary, [[Orchardleigh Estate|Orchardleigh]], Somerset (1878)<ref>{{NHLE |num=1058142 |desc=Church of St Mary, causeway bridge, and gates |access-date=20 November 2007}}</ref>
* [[Church of St Editha, Tamworth|Church of St Editha]], [[Tamworth, Staffordshire|Tamworth]], [[Staffordshire]] (1850s)
* [[St Mary's Church, Temple Balsall|St Mary's Church]], [[Temple Balsall]], [[Warwickshire]] (1849) 
* [[Church of St John the Baptist, Bromsgrove|Church of St John the Baptist]], [[Bromsgrove]], [[Worcestershire]] (1858)<ref>Pevsner, 1968, p. 109</ref>
* [[St Mary's Church, Hull|St Mary's Church]], [[Kingston upon Hull]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire]] (1861–63)
* [[Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield|Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin]], [[Wakefield]], [[West Yorkshire]] (1842)
[[File:Lichwestfrontdetail.jpg|thumb|upright|The West Front of [[Lichfield Cathedral]]]]

====Cathedrals====
*[[Ely Cathedral]] (1847–78)
*[[Gloucester Cathedral]] (1854–76)
*[[Peterborough Cathedral]] (1855–60)
*[[Coventry Cathedral]] (1855–57)
*[[Hereford Cathedral]] east side (1855–63)
*[[Lichfield Cathedral]] (1855–61 & 1877–81)
*[[Wakefield Cathedral]] (1858–60, 1865–69 and 1872–74)
*[[Durham Cathedral]] (1859 and 1874–76)
*[[Brecon Cathedral]] (1860–62 & 1872–75)
*[[Canterbury Cathedral]] (1860 & 1877–80)
*[[Chichester Cathedral]] (1861–67 & 1872)
*[[Ripon Cathedral]] (1862–72)
*[[St Edmundsbury Cathedral]] (1863–64 & 1867–69)
*[[Worcester Cathedral]] (1863–64, 1868 & 1874)
*[[St David's Cathedral]], [[St Davids]], Wales (1864–76)
*[[Salisbury Cathedral]] (1865–71)
*[[St Asaph Cathedral]] (1866–69 & 1871)
*[[Newcastle Cathedral]] (1867–71 & 1872–76)
*[[Chester Cathedral]] (1868–75)
*[[Exeter Cathedral]] (1869–70)
*[[Christ Church, Oxford]] east wall of choir (1870–72 & 1874–76)
*[[Rochester Cathedral]] (1871–74)
*[[St Albans Cathedral]] (1871–80)
*[[Manchester Cathedral]] (''c.'' 1872)
*[[Winchester Cathedral]] (1875)
Additionally, Scott designed the Mason and Dixon monument in [[York Minster]] (1860), prepared plans for the restoration of [[Bristol Cathedral]] in 1859 and [[Norwich Cathedral]] in 1860 neither of which resulted in a commission, and designed a pulpit for [[Lincoln Cathedral]] in 1863.

====Abbeys, priories and collegiate churches====
*[[St Mary's Church, Stafford]], 1842–45
*[[Beverley Minster]] 1844, 1866–68, 1877
*[[Westminster Abbey]], 1848–78
*[[Dorchester Abbey]], 1858, 1862, 1874
*[[King's College, Cambridge]], 1859–63, 1875
*[[Bath Abbey]], 1860–77
*[[Pershore Abbey]], 1861–64, 1867
*[[St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]], 1863
*Chapel of St James the Great, [[Lord Leycester Hospital]], Warwick, 1863
*[[Great Malvern Priory]], c. 1864
*[[Boxgrove Priory]], 1864–67
*[[Priory Church, Leominster]], 1864–66, 1876–78
*[[Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey]], 1865–66
*[[Selby Abbey]], 1872–74
*[[Tewkesbury Abbey]], 1874–79
*[[Bridlington Priory]], 1875–80

====Other restoration work====
Scott restored the Inner Gateway (also known as the Abbey Gateway) of [[Reading Abbey]] in 1860–61 after its partial collapse.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tyack, Bradley and Pevsner|first=Geoffrey, Simon and Nikolaus|title=The Buildings of England: Berkshire|year=2010|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven and London|isbn=978-0-300-12662-4|page=443}}</ref> St Mary's of Charity in [[Faversham]], which was [[Victorian restoration|restored]] (and transformed, with an unusual spire and unexpected interior) by Scott in 1874, and [[Dundee Parish Church (St Mary's)|Dundee Parish Church]], and designed the chapels of [[Exeter College, Oxford]], [[St John's College, Cambridge]] and [[King's College, London]]. He also designed [[St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee]].

[[Lichfield Cathedral]]'s ornate West Front was extensively renovated by Scott from 1855 to 1878. He restored the cathedral to the form he believed it took in the [[Middle Ages]], working with original materials where possible and creating imitations when the originals were not available. It is recognised{{who|date=November 2012}} as some of his finest work.

In 1854 Gilbert Scott began a restoration of [[Sudeley Castle]] "working on the western side of the inner court in the style of the existing Medieval and Elizabethan buildings" and subsequently began the restoration of St Mary's chapel, with the assistance of John Drayton Wyatt.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gilbertscott.org/sudeley-castle-and-st-marys-chapel-sudeley/ |title=Sudeley Castle and St Mary's Chapel, Sudeley |date=20 March 2018 |work=Gilbert Scott |access-date=7 March 2021 |quote=Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2 volumes (Continium, London, 2001), vol. II, p. 1075.}}</ref>

==Gallery of architectural work==
<gallery>
File:Louth Workhouse - geograph.org.uk - 134024.jpg|[[County Hospital Louth|Workhouse, Louth]] Lincolnshire (1839)
File:St mary hanwell 38.jpg|St Mary's Hanwell, Middlesex (1841)
File:St mary hanwell east window 3435.jpg|East end, St Mary's Hanwell, Middlesex (1841)
File:Martyrs Memorial Oxford 20050317.jpg|Martyrs' Memorial, Oxford (1841–43)
File:Camberwell parish church of St Giles.JPG|St Giles Church, Camberwell (1842–44)
File:Reading Prison 1.JPG|Reading Gaol, Berkshire (1842–44)
File:Holy Trinity church, Halstead, Essex - geograph.org.uk - 213377.jpg|[[Holy Trinity Church, Halstead]], Essex (1843–44)
File:Zeals - geograph.org.uk - 5444.jpg|St Martin's, [[Zeals]], Wiltshire (1845–46)
File:Anglican Cathedral of St John the Baptist, St John's, Newfoundland.jpg|Cathedral of St John, Newfoundland, Canada (1847–1905)
File:Anglican Cathedral St.John's newfoundland.jpg|Cathedral of St John, Newfoundland, Canada (1847–1905)
File:St Peter's Church, Croydon - West.jpg|St Peter's Church, Croydon (1849–51)
File:St.Ann's Church, Alderney.jpg|St Anne's Alderney ({{Circa|1850}})
File:Weeton, the Church of St Barnabas.jpg|St Barnabas's Church, Weeton, North Yorkshire (1852)
File:St George, Doncaster.JPG|St George's Church, Doncaster, Yorkshire (1853–58)
File:Doncaster, St George's Church - geograph.org.uk - 234717.jpg|St George's Church, Doncaster, Yorkshire (1853–58)
File:Lichfield Cathedral nave.jpg|Lichfield Cathedral, as restored and with fittings by Scott (1855–61) & (1877–81)
File:All Souls' Halifax from Dean Clough sheep.JPG|All Souls', Haley Hill, Halifax (1856–59)
File:All Souls', Haley Hill, Halifax - Interior looking east - Tim Green aka atoach.jpg|Interior looking east, All Souls', Haley Hill, Halifax, Yorkshire (1856–59)
File:Ilam cottages 304790.jpg|Cottages, Ilam, Staffordshire (c.1871)
File:Exeter College, Oxford chapel door.jpg|Chapel door, Exeter College, Oxford (1857–59)
File:Exeter College Chapel & Lectern, Oxford - Diliff.jpg|East end, Chapel, Exeter College, Oxford (1857–59)
File:Kelham Hall - geograph.org.uk - 4560.jpg|Kelham Hall, Nottinghamshire (1858–62)
File:Westminster School Monument.jpg|Crimea War Memorial, Westminster School, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster (1858)
File:Walton Hall through the trees - geograph.org.uk - 118520.jpg|Walton Hall, Warwickshire (c.1858–62)
File:Edwin Loach Church.jpg|St Mary's, Edwin Loach, Herefordshire (c.1859)
File:Brighton College Chapel.jpg|The Chapel, Brighton College (1859)
File:All Saints, Nocton. - geograph.org.uk - 16937.jpg|All Saints, Nocton (1860–63)
File:Buckingham PeterandPaulParishChurch08.JPG|SS. Peter and Paul Church, Buckingham, heavily restored (1860–67)
File:Bath Abbey Vaults.jpg|Nave Vault, Bath Abbey (1860–77) (copy of the medieval vault in the chancel)
File:King's College London Chapel 2, London - Diliff.jpg|The Chapel, [[King's College London]] (1861–62)
File:Christ Church, Southgate, London N14 - geograph.org.uk - 1079672.jpg|Christ Church, Southgate, London (1861–62)
File:Vaughan Library, Harrow School - geograph.org.uk - 98107.jpg|Vaughan Library, Harrow School, London (1861–63)
File:Herefordscreen.jpg|Screen from Hereford Cathedral (1862) now in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]]
File:Sherbourne - geograph.org.uk - 13347.jpg|All Saints' Church, Sherbourne, Warwickshire (1862–64)
File:Foreign.office.london.arp.jpg|Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London (1862–75)
File:Foreignofficestairwell.jpg|Grand Staircase, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London (1862–75)
File:StJohn'sCollegeChapel1.jpg|Looking east, St John's College Chapel, Cambridge (1863–69)
File:Clifton Hampden Bridge (2).JPG|Clifton Hampden Bridge, Oxfordshire (1864)
File:Leeds General Infirmary - geograph.org.uk - 66454.jpg|Leeds General Infirmary (1864–70)
File:StDavidsCathedral 1.JPG|St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, showing Scott's west front (1864–76)
File:Albert Memorial, London - May 2008.jpg|Albert Memorial, London (1864–76)
File:Christchurch Cathedral-derivative.jpg|ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand (1864–1904)
File:St_Mary's_Church,_Norney,_Shackleford.jpg|St Mary's Church, Norney, Shackleford, Surrey (1865)
File:McManus Galleries.jpg|Former Albert Institute Dundee (1865–69)
File:St Luke's church, Salford.JPG|St Luke's church, Salford (1865)
File:St Pancras Railway Station.jpg|Former Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras Station (1866–76)
File:St Pancras Decor Andh.JPG|Detail of decoration in the Train Shed, St Pancras Station (1866–76)
File:Worcester cathedral 006.JPG|Reredos high altar, Worcester Cathedral (1867–68)
File:University of Glasgow view.jpg|University of Glasgow (1867–70), spire added after Scott's death by his son [[John Oldrid Scott]]
File:Highclere Church - geograph.org.uk - 56915.jpg|[[Highclere]] Church, Hampshire (1869–70)
File:Brownsover Hall 48216.jpg|Brownsover Hall, Warwickshire (c.1870)
File:St Mary Abbots Church Kensington.jpg|[[St Mary Abbots]] Church, Kensington (1870–72)
File:George Gilbert Scott Reichstag 1872.jpg|Design for Reichstag, Berlin, not executed (1872)
File:Worcester cathedral 019.JPG|Pulpit, Worcester Cathedral (1873–74)
File:St Mary's 3 spires.jpg|West front, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (1874–80)
File:St Mary's Episcopal, Edinburgh.jpg|East front, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (1874–80)
File:Grahamstown Cathedral.JPG|Grahamstown Cathedral, South Africa (1874–78) & finished (1893)
File:Clarkson Memorial.JPG|[[Clarkson Memorial]], Wisbech, (1880–81)
File:New Court Pembroke College Cambridge.jpg| New Court, Pembroke College, Cambridge (1881)
File:St Barnabas, Bromborough from southeast.jpg|[[St Barnabas' Church, Bromborough]], Merseyside (1862–64)
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==See also==
*[[List of works by George Gilbert Scott]]

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==Sources==
*{{cite book |last1=Bayley |first1=Stephen |title=The Albert Memorial|edition=paperback  |year=1983 |publisher=Scolar Press |location=London }}
*{{cite book |last1=Cherry |last2=Pevsner|first1=Bridget|first2=Nikolaus |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=[[The Buildings of England]] |title= London 2: South|year=1983 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]]|isbn=978-0-300-09651-4}}
*{{cite book |last=Cole |first=David |title=The Work of Gilbert Scott |year=1980 |publisher=Architectural Press |location=London |isbn=0-85139-723-9}}
*{{cite book |last1=Eastlake |first1=Charles Locke  |title=A History of the Gothic Revival |url=https://archive.org/details/ahistorygothicr00eastgoog|year=1872  |publisher= Longmans, Green & Co|location=London }}
*{{cite book |title=Architecture:Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |last= Hitchcock|first=Henry-Russell  |series=The Pelican History of Art|year=1977 |publisher=Penguin Books |location= Harmonsworth}}
*{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=[[The Buildings of England]] |title=Herefordshire |year=1963 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071025-6}}
*{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=[[The Buildings of England]] |title=Worcestershire |year=1968 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=Harmondsworth}}
*{{cite book |last1=Sherwood |first1=Jennifer |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=[[The Buildings of England]] |title=Oxfordshire |year=1974 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071045-0}}

==External links==
{{commons|George Gilbert Scott}}
{{EB1911 poster|Scott, Sir George Gilbert}}
* {{cite DNB|wstitle=Scott, George Gilbert}}
* {{cite web
 |publisher  = [[Victoria and Albert Museum]]
 |url        = http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/metalwork/metalwork_stories/hereford/george_gilbert/index.html
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080621043719/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/metalwork/metalwork_stories/hereford/george_gilbert/index.html
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 |title      = Sir George Gilbert Scott
 |work       = Metalwork
 |access-date = 18 August 2007
}}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.workhouses.org.uk/buildings/Scott.shtml
 |title=George Gilbert Scott's workhouse designs
 |work=The Workhouse
 |access-date= 9 September 2008}}
* [http://stjohns.Bromsgrove.church St Johns Church Bromsgrove] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017164652/http://stjohns.bromsgrove.church/ |date=17 October 2016 }}
* [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jul/08/sir-george-gilbert-scott-st-pancras Sir George Gilbert Scott, the unsung hero of British architecture]
* [http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=5882 Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections]

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