Main entry:

Stamp, Gavin, author.

Title & Author:

An architect of promise : George Gilbert Scott Junior (1839-1897) and the late Gothic Revival / by Gavin Stamp.

Publication:

Donington : Shaun Tyas, 2002.
©2002

Description:

xviii, 427 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-410) and index.
A man of rare talent : an introduction to Scott's life and work -- The most gifted man : Scott's background and early career -- Beyond 'vigour' and 'go' : Scott and the reaction against High Victorian Gothic -- Great Gothic fanes : Scott's church architecture -- Not much used for ecclesiastical purposes : Scott's Classical church designs -- One of the 'Queen Anne' folks : Scott's secular and domestic architecture -- A trifle less conservative : Scott's restorations of old buildings -- Watts in a name : Scott's designs for domestic interiors and church furnishings -- The end of architecture : Scott's writings, pessimism and religious faith -- A mind on trial : Scott's mental breakdown and retreat from practice -- An ideal for our own times : Scott's legacy and the work of Temple Moore -- Appendix : list of works and projects.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"George Gilbert Scott junior, born in 1839, was the lost hope of Late Victorian architecture. Today he is little known but during his tragically short life he helped change the direction of British architecture. His work inaugurated the refined, elegant style of the last decades of the nineteenth century which dared to look to Perpendicular Gothic for inspiration. His now-demolished church of St. Agnes in Kennington, South London, was hugely influential and one of the key buildings which marked the rejection of High Victorian Gothic in the 1870s. Scott was also a domestic architect and was known as a pioneer in the 'Queen Anne' revival of a vernacular classicism. He was responsible for furniture, metalwork and painted decoration. Moving in advanced artistic circles, he designed wallpaper for William Morris and then for the firm of Watts & Co. which he established with G.F. Bodley and Thomas Garner. Nor was Scott just an architect, designer and church restorer: he was briefly a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge, having written a prize-winning essay which attempted to reconcile Christianity with the unsettling scientific discoveries of his day."--Jacket

ISBN:

1900289512
9781900289511

Subject:

Scott, G. Gilbert (George Gilbert), 1839-1897.
Scott, George Gilbert Architekt, 1839-1897.
Architects Great Britain Biography.
Gothic revival (Architecture) Great Britain.
Architecture Great Britain History 19th century.
Architectes Grande-Bretagne.
Néo-gothique (Architecture) Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
catalogues raisonnés.
Architects.
Architecture.
Gothic revival (Architecture)
Architektur
Gebouwen.
Neogotiek.
Great Britain.
English Architects.
Churches Great Britain England 1870-1900.
Houses Great Britain England 1870-1900.
Church Decoration (ornament) Great Britain England 1870-1900.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
Catalogues raisonnés.
catalogues raisonnés.
History.

Added entries:

George Gilbert Scott Junior (1839-1897) and the late Gothic Revival

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223870
Call No.: NA44.S4255.9 S7 2002
Status: Available