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Sir George Gilbert Scott: Quick Facts

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Born July 13, 1811 • England
Died March 27, 1878 (aged 66) • London • England
Movement / Style Gothic Revival

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St. John's College Chapel
Figure 93: English secular architecture in the Gothic Revival style. (left) Midland Hotel at St. Pancras Station, London, by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1867-74.
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James Wyatt, c. 1800.
James Wyatt
British architect
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
French architect
Burges, William: St. Finbar's Cathedral
William Burges
British architect
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William Butterfield
British architect
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Thomas Rickman
British architect
Smithsonian Institution
James Renwick
American architect
Westminster Abbey
Nicholas Hawksmoor
British architect
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A.W.N. Pugin
British architect and author
Upjohn, Richard: Trinity Church
Richard Upjohn
American architect
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George Edmund Street
British architect
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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
British architect
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Sir Charles Barry
British architect
Northampton
Edward Godwin
British architect and writer
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Italian architect
Escalera Dorada (Golden Staircase), Burgos Cathedral, Spain, by Diego de Siloé, 1519–23.
Diego de Siloé
Spanish artist
Arnolfo di Cambio, statue by Luigi Pampaloni, 1830; near the Duomo, Florence.
Arnolfo di Cambio
Italian sculptor and architect
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Pietro Lombardo
Italian sculptor
Herrera, Juan de: Cathedral of Valladolid
Juan de Herrera
Spanish architect
Klenze, Leo von: Glyptothek
Leo von Klenze
German architect
Cram, Ralph Adams
Ralph Adams Cram
American architect and writer

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