page_title: George Gilbert Scott
section_title: Churches
hierarchical_section_title: George Gilbert Scott / Architectural work / Restorations / Churches
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail of the west front of Lichfield Cathedral. Taken Feb 2006
context_page_description: Sir Gilbert Scott RA, styled Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English 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 workhouses. Over 800 buildings were designed or altered by him.
  Scott was the architect of many iconic buildings, including the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station, the Albert Memorial, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, all in London, St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, the main building of the University of Glasgow, St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh and King's College Chapel, London.
context_section_description: Scott was involved in major restorations of medieval church architecture, all across England.
  Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield, West Yorkshire (1842)
  Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield, Derbyshire (1843)
  St Mary's Church, Sandbach (1847)
  St Mary's Church, Temple Balsall, Solihull, West Midlands (1849)
  St John the Baptist Church Glastonbury, Somerset (1850s)
  St Mary's Church, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (1850s)
  Church of St Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire (1850s)
  Church of St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire (1850s)
  St Mary's Church, Halton, Runcorn, Cheshire (1852)
  St Mary's Church, Bishopsbourne, Kent (1871)
  All Saints' Church, Oakham (1857–1858)
  St John the Baptist Church, Aconbury, Herefordshire (1863)
  St Paul (Without the Walls) Church, Canterbury, Kent (1860s)
  Church of St John the Baptist, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire (1858)
  St Mary Magdelene, Duns Tew, Oxfordshire (1861–62)
  St Mary's Church, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire (1861–63)
  St Helen's Church, Welton, East Riding of Yorkshire (1862–63)
  St Peter and St Paul, Buckingham Church Buckingham, (1862–1878), additions to the original 1780 church including chancel, buttresses, porch, roof and nave alterations. Work continued over the years by his second son John Oldrid Scott and grandson Charles Marriott Oldrid Scott.
  St John the Baptist Church, Upton Bishop, Herefordshire (1862)
  St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington (1864-65)
  St Leonard, Yarpole, Herefordshire, restoration of chancel(1864)
  St Mary and St Nicolas, Spalding, Lincolnshire (1865-7)
  St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, Lincolnshire (1866–75)
  All Saints' Church, Winterton, Lincolnshire (1867)
  St Mary Abbots, Kensington, London (1872)
  All Saints' Church, Hillesden Buckinghamshire (1874–75)
  St Margaret's Church, King's Lynn (1875)
  St Margaret's, Westminster, London (1877–78)
  St Mary's Island church on the Orchardleigh Estate, Somerset (1878)
  St Peter's Church, Prestbury, Cheshire (1879–1881)
  St Barnabas' Church, Bromborough, Merseyside (1862-1864)
  St Andrew's Parish Church, Spratton, Northamptonshire
  Church of St Mary the Less, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
  Church of St John the Baptist, Danbury, Essex
caption: The West Front of Lichfield Cathedral
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