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George Gilbert Scott and the Martyrs' Memorial
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1979Histoire de l'erection du monument en l'honneur des martyrs anglicans d'Oxford, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley et Hugh Latimer, comme une garantie de fidelite aux principes de la Reforme face aux partisans d'une certaine reaction pro-romaine. Decidee en 1838, la construction fut confiee au tout jeune George Gilbert Scott dont l'oeuvre marque une etape
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George Gilbert Scott: A Pioneer of Constructional Polychromy?
Architectural History, 2014The dominant historical account of constructional polychromy in Britain describes its emergence in the fifteenth century as a by-product of the introduction of brick-making under Flemish influence. Blue bricks, over-fired or possibly deliberately vitrified, were put to use creating patterns and colour contrasts in load-bearing walls.
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Accounting History, 2015
This article examines the financial control of Scotland’s largest building construction project of the 1860s and 1870s, the relocation of Glasgow University at Gilmorehill. In discussing the respective roles of the architect, the “measurer” (quantity surveyor), the client, the clerk of works and the various contractors engaged to carry out the ...
Sam McKinstry, Ying Yong Ding
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This article examines the financial control of Scotland’s largest building construction project of the 1860s and 1870s, the relocation of Glasgow University at Gilmorehill. In discussing the respective roles of the architect, the “measurer” (quantity surveyor), the client, the clerk of works and the various contractors engaged to carry out the ...
Sam McKinstry, Ying Yong Ding
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A disgrace to the town': Aylesbury Church and its restoration by George Gilbert Scott
2023Records of Buckinghamshire, 34, 1 ...
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The photograph album of Albert Henry Scott, the photographer son of George Gilbert Scott
The Antiquaries Journal, 2013This paper describes the contents of an album of photographs taken in 1861–2 by the seventeen-year-old third son of the renowned architect George Gilbert Scott. The album is evidence of the growing popularity of photography as a hobby for amateurs in the 1850s and 1860s as a result of technical developments that made the equipment easier to transport ...
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George Gilbert Scott, Jun., and King's College Chapel
Architectural History, 1994In memory of George Gilbert Scott, M.A., F.S.A., Sometime fellow offesus College, Cambridge, who was bom October 8th 1839 and died May 6th 1897. On whose soul Jesus have mercy. So runs the inscription on the tomb in Hampstead Churchyard where, following his mental breakdown and the scandalous activities which alienated both his family and professional ...
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Architectural History, 2010
In 1861 Scott designed an innovative hybrid for Christchurch Cathedral, New Zealand, combining a stone exterior with an independent wooden interior, at once expression of the primitive ruggedness of what he imagined to be the Maori wood tradition and an experimental response for this earthquake-prone colony.Commissioning George Gilbert Scott (1811-78 ...
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In 1861 Scott designed an innovative hybrid for Christchurch Cathedral, New Zealand, combining a stone exterior with an independent wooden interior, at once expression of the primitive ruggedness of what he imagined to be the Maori wood tradition and an experimental response for this earthquake-prone colony.Commissioning George Gilbert Scott (1811-78 ...
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The New-Poor-Law Workhouses of George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt
Architectural History, 1997Thanks to his Recollections, published posthumously in 1879, much is known about the early professional life of the illustrious Victorian architect, George Gilbert Scott. Yet the workhouses with which he launched his career between 1835 and 1843 are poorly understood.
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