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D. Cole, The Work of Sir George Gilbert Scott

2023
Rezension zu: David Cole, The Work of Sir George Gilbert Scott. London, Architectural Press 1980. 244 Seiten, 167 Abb.
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George Gilbert Scott: A Pioneer of Constructional Polychromy?

Architectural History, 2014
The 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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“Hybridised” financial control in the Victorian construction industry: George Gilbert Scott’s rebuilding of Glasgow University, 1864–1872

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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George Gilbert Scott and the Martyrs' Memorial

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1979
Histoire 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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In Search of the Byzantine: George Gilbert Scott's Diary of an Architectural Tour in France in 1862

Architectural History, 2003
‘When you go abroad, begin with France’, George Gilbert Scott told his student audience at the Royal Academy. ‘It is the great centre of Mediaeval art.’ Scott himself was late in appreciating this. Apart from a day trip to Calais at the beginning of his career, the first visit he paid to France was in 1847, soon after securing his first cathedral ...
Gavin Stamp, George Gilbert Scott
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George Gilbert Scott, Jun., and King's College Chapel

Architectural History, 1994
In 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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