54-652: William Booth College on Champion Park, Denmark Hill in the London Borough of Southwark , is the headquarters of The Salvation Army leadership and officer training which delivers education and training programmes for the United Kingdom . Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott , the college is a memorial to William Booth . The college has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since September 1972. The college
108-518: A commission to build Bankside Power Station on the bank of the River Thames in Southwark , where he built on what he had learnt at Battersea and gathered all the flues into a single tower. This building was converted in the late 1990s into Tate Modern art gallery. Scott continued to receive commissions for religious buildings. At Preston, Lancashire he built a Roman Catholic church which
162-621: A debate on 25 January 1945, the House of Commons approved his choice by 121 to 21. After the immediate rush for building work caused by war damage had died down, Scott put a new roof on the Guildhall in the City of London and designed modernistic brick offices for the Corporation just to the north. Despite having opposed placing heavily industrial buildings in the centre of cities, he accepted
216-459: A flat in Battersea , spending weekends and holidays at the farm. She regularly took them on cycling trips to sketch buildings in the area, and encouraged them to take an interest in architecture. Among the buildings the young Scott drew were Battle Abbey , Brede Place and Etchingham Church ; Scott's son, Richard Gilbert Scott , suggests that the last, with its solid central tower, "was perhaps
270-685: A house he designed for himself in Clarendon Place, Paddington in 1924, which won the annual medal for London street architecture of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1928. Scott's residential buildings are few; one of the best known is the Cropthorne Court mansion block in Maida Vale , where the frontage juts out in diagonals, eliminating the need for lightwells . Scott continued working on churches during
324-464: A not very impressive neo-Jacobean design". A later biographer, Gavin Stamp , praises the considerable technical achievement of keeping the building low in scale by building underground, but agrees that aesthetically the building is not among Scott's most successful. Nikolaus Pevsner dismisses it as "neither one thing nor the other". Scott's search for the "middle line" caused him difficulties when he
378-408: A pipe-rack. The choice of winner was even more contentious when it emerged that Scott was a Roman Catholic, but the assessors' recommendation was accepted by the diocesan authorities. Because of Scott's age and inexperience, the cathedral committee appointed Bodley as joint architect to work in tandem with him. A historian of Liverpool Cathedral observes that it was generous of Bodley to enter into
432-516: A pupil in Moore's practice, the diocese of Liverpool announced a competition to select the architect of a new cathedral. Two well-known architects were appointed as assessors for an open competition for architects wishing to be considered. G. F. Bodley was a leading exponent of the Gothic revival style, and a former pupil and relative by marriage of Scott's grandfather. R. Norman Shaw
486-400: A similar monumental impressiveness to Gilbert Scott's other south London buildings, Battersea Power Station and Bankside Power Station (now housing Tate Modern ), although its simplicity is partly the result of repeated budget cuts during its construction: much more detail, including carved Gothic stonework surrounding the windows, was originally planned. Shepherd's Bush F.C. played in
540-411: A traditional Gothic cathedral in the style of the previous century. He persuaded the cathedral committee to let him start all over again (a difficult decision, as some of the stonework had already been erected) and redesigned it as a simpler and more symmetrical building with a single massive central tower instead of the original proposal for twin towers. Scott's new plans provided more interior space. At
594-454: A working relationship with a young and untried student. Bodley had been a close friend of Scott's father, but his collaboration with the young Scott was fractious, especially after Bodley accepted commissions to design two cathedrals in the US, necessitating frequent absences from Liverpool. Scott complained that this "has made the working partnership agreement more of a farce than ever, and to tell
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#1732781031590648-498: Is dated "Denmark Hill, 10th May, 1862". The Institute of Psychiatry is based behind the Maudsley Hospital, a school of King's College London (University of London) . The college also has a hall of residence immediately east at Champion Hill. The Salvation Army's William Booth Memorial Training College on Champion Park which was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott was completed in 1932; it towers over south London. It has
702-588: Is notable for an unusually long and repetitive nave. His Carmelite Church in Kensington , up the road from St Mary Abbots built by his grandfather, used transverse concrete arches to fill a difficult site (the church replaced another lost in the war). Scott created the design of the Trinity College Chapel in Toronto , completed in 1955, a lovely example of the perpendicular Gothic, executed by
756-457: Is said to have acquired its name from Queen Anne 's husband, Prince George of Denmark , who hunted there. High Street, Camberwell was renamed Denmark Hill as part of metropolitan street renaming. In John Cary 's map of 1786 the area is shown as Dulwich Hill . The only building apparent is the "Fox under the Hill". The present "Fox on the Hill" pub is a hundred yards or so further up (south), on
810-456: Is served by many Transport for London bus services connecting it with areas including Central London , Croydon , Norwood , Dulwich , Peckham and Penge . Ruskin Park is a public park at the centre of the long curved slope and half of crest summit area which is Denmark Hill. It was opened on 2 February 1907 with 24 acres (9.7 ha) and in 1910 a further 12 acres (4.9 ha) were added on
864-561: Is situated in a separate block. Adjacent to the canteen is a function room which is used to host social and fundraising events put on by the college. The accommodation varies; while some flats may have up to three bedrooms, others may only have one. Most of the guest accommodation is in Blocks 3 and 4 at the college. The training Cadets will usually stay at William Booth College for two years while they complete their leadership or officer training. If they are newly appointed they might go back to
918-648: The Commons chamber of the Palace of Westminster was destroyed by bombs in 1941, Scott was appointed in 1944 to rebuild it. Here he was hemmed in entirely by the surviving building, but was entirely of the view that the new chamber should be congruent with the old as anything else would clash with the Gothic style of Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin . This view found favour with Winston Churchill who observed "We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us". In
972-645: The New Bodleian Library , in Broad Street in Oxford. It is not generally considered his finest work. Needing to provide storage for millions of books without building higher than the surrounding structures, he devised a construction going deep into the earth, behind two elevations no higher than those around them. His biographer A S G Butler commented, "In an attempt to be polite to these – which vary from late Gothic to Victorian Tudor – Scott produced
1026-685: The First World War Scott was a Major in the Royal Marines . He was in charge of building sea defences on the English Channel coast. As Liverpool Cathedral rose Scott's fame grew, and he began to secure commissions for secular buildings. One of the first was for Clare College, Cambridge , Memorial Court, which was in a neo-Georgian style on the west bank of the River Cam. This style was also used for Chester House ,
1080-703: The GPO's " Kiosk no. 2 " or "K2". In 1932 the design was expanded to include a posting box and two stamp vending machines as " Kiosk no. 4 " or "K4". Later designs adapted the same general look for mass production: the Jubilee kiosk, introduced for King George V 's silver jubilee in 1935 and known as the "K6", eventually became a fixture in almost every town and village. In 1930 the London Power Company engaged Scott as consulting architect for its new electricity generating station at Battersea . The building
1134-455: The area as Old St Stephen's F.C. Its postcode is SE5. North-east and south-easterly slopes of the same eminence are named Grove Hill and Dog Kennel Hill, on top of which the summit is shared with Champion Hill , the only division being proximity to the respective two affluent streets which intersect on Camberwell descent. From Camberwell Green northwards the land is much lower and very gently sloped as in northern Brixton at its other foot, in
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#17327810315901188-434: The best of tradition with a fresh modern approach, to eschew dogma, and recognise "the influence of surroundings on the choice of materials and the technique of their use. … My plea is for a frank and common-sense acceptance of those features and materials which are practical and beautiful, regardless as to whether they conform with the formula of either the modern or the traditional school." From 1937 to 1940, Scott worked on
1242-489: The building displayed "the same enjoyment of modelling in mass which is Sir Giles Scott's chief personal contribution to contemporary architecture." Scott was elected president of the Royal Institute of British Architects for 1933, its centenary year (having already been awarded the RIBA's prestigious Royal Gold Medal in 1925). In his presidential address he urged colleagues to adopt what he called "a middle line": to combine
1296-769: The college before their second Salvation Army appointment with a new corps. Denmark Hill Denmark Hill is an area and road in Camberwell , in the London Borough of Southwark , London, England. It is a sub-section of the western flank of the Norwood Ridge , centred on the long, curved Ruskin Park slope of the ridge. The road is part of the A215 which north of its main foot, Camberwell Green , becomes Camberwell Road and south of Red Post Hill becomes named Herne Hill , another district. The area and road
1350-600: The development of his style. Scott and his brother Adrian worked on Grey Wings , a house in Ashtead, Surrey in 1913. While working in Liverpool, Scott met and married Louise Wallbank Hughes, a receptionist at the Adelphi Hotel ; his mother was displeased to learn that she was a Protestant. The marriage was happy, and lasted until Louise Scott's death in 1949. They had three sons, one of whom died in infancy. During
1404-442: The enormous library for the entire University of Cambridge . He placed two six-storey courtyards in parallel with a twelve-storey tower in the centre, and linked the windows vertically to the bookstacks. The main reading room measured nearly 200 feet (61 m) by 41 feet (12 m) and 31 feet (9.4 m) high, lit by 25 round-headed clerestory windows on each side. At the time of its opening in 1934, The Times commented that
1458-498: The germ of Liverpool Cathedral". Scott and his brothers were raised as Roman Catholics; their father was a Catholic convert. Giles attended Beaumont College on the recommendation of his father who admired the buildings of its preparatory school, the work of J. F. Bentley . In January 1899 Scott became an articled pupil in the office of Temple Moore , who had studied with Scott's father. From Moore, or Ellen Scott, or from his father's former assistant P. B. Freeman, Scott got to know
1512-617: The globe. Construction continued throughout the 1930s, but slowed drastically throughout the Second World War, as it had done during the First. Scott continued to work on the project until his death, refining the design as he went. He designed every aspect of the building down to the fine details. The cathedral was finished in 1978, nearly two decades after Scott's death. While Scott was feuding with Bodley in Liverpool, he managed to design and see built his first complete church. This
1566-580: The inter-war years. Shortly after his work on the nave at Downside Abbey he was commissioned to design the small Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady & St Alphege, Bath , the first part of which was completed in 1929. His design was inspired by the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin , Rome. Scott's distillation of the main elements of that large and ancient church into the much smaller Bath parish church has been described as "a delight" which "cannot fail to astonish". Some 25 years later he wrote "The church
1620-483: The interior was brought up to date. The main building consists of an Assembly hall which is used on Sundays for the main services as well as other events. There is a library and a museum which visitors can access. The lounge area, known to the residents as The Hub is a single-storey development which links the Assembly hall to the main entrance. This provides cadets with a "friendly" free-time space. The Canteen area
1674-524: The local firm of George and Moorhouse and featuring windows by E. Liddall Armstrong of Whitefriars. Scott remained working into his late 70s. He was working on designs for the Roman Catholic Church of Christ the King, Plymouth , when he developed lung cancer. He took the designs into University College Hospital , where he continued to revise them until his death aged 79. Scott was buried by
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1728-424: The monks of Ampleforth Abbey outside the west entrance of Liverpool Cathedral , alongside his wife (Scott specifically requested that no body should be interred inside the building as he did not want it to become a mausoleum). Although originally planned in the 1942 design for the west end of the cathedral to be within a porch, the site of the grave was eventually covered by a car park access road. The road layout
1782-572: The new building. For architects, the competition was an important event; not only was it for one of the largest building projects of its time, but it was only the third opportunity to build an Anglican cathedral in England since the Reformation in the 16th century ( St Paul's Cathedral being the first, rebuilt from scratch after the Great Fire of London in 1666, and Truro Cathedral being
1836-407: The reputations of the two men!" Scott's father and his grandfather had been exponents of High Victorian Gothic ; Scott, when still a young man, saw the possibility of designing in Gothic without the profusion of detail that marked their work. He had an unusually free hand in working out his ideas, as Moore generally worked at home, leaving Freeman to run the office. In 1901, while Scott was still
1890-488: The same time Scott modified the decorative style, losing much of the Gothic detailing and introducing a more modern, monumental style. The Lady Chapel , the first part of the building to be completed, was consecrated in 1910 by Bishop Chavasse in the presence of two archbishops and 24 other bishops. Work was severely limited during the First World War, with a shortage of manpower, materials and money. By 1920,
1944-510: The second, begun in the 19th century). The competition attracted 103 entries, from architects including Temple Moore, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Charles Reilly . With Moore's approval, Scott submitted his own entry, on which he worked in his spare time. In 1903, the assessors recommended that Scott should be appointed. There was widespread comment at the nomination of a 22-year-old with no existing buildings to his credit. Scott admitted that so far his only design to be constructed had been
1998-488: The site of former St Matthew's Vicarage adjacent to a triangle of land rumoured to be a " plague pit " or burial ground. The name of the area was changed in honour of the husband of Queen Anne , Prince George of Denmark . The area is home of the Maudsley Hospital and King's College Hospital , and also of Ruskin Park , named after John Ruskin , who once lived nearby. The preface to his work Unto This Last
2052-546: The south side of the park. It is named after John Ruskin (1819–1900), who lived near the park. The source of the Earl's Sluice river, now underground, is in the park. The Weston Education Centre , with its medical library, is in Denmark Hill. Among those who were born or lived in Denmark Hill are: Giles Gilbert Scott Sir Giles Gilbert Scott OM RA FRIBA (9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960)
2106-554: The time of its opening, The Observer , though expressing some reservations about details of Scott's work, called it "one of the finest sights in London". In a poll organised by The Architectural Review in 1939 to find what lay people thought were Britain's best modern buildings, Battersea Power Station was in second place, behind the Peter Jones building. In Cambridge , next to Clare College's Memorial Court, Scott designed
2160-423: The truth my patience with the existing state of affairs is about exhausted". Scott was on the point of resigning when Bodley died suddenly in 1907, leaving him in charge. The cathedral committee appointed Scott sole architect, and though it reserved the right to appoint another co-architect, it never seriously considered doing so. In 1910 Scott realised that he was not happy with the main design, which looked like
2214-708: The west. There are good views across central London from vantage points (e.g. top-storey windows). On a clear day some viewers can read the time on the Big Ben clockface. Denmark Hill has a major transport interchange served by London Overground , Southeastern and Thameslink rail services and London Buses . Denmark Hill railway station is served by Southeastern services to London Victoria via Bexleyheath and Dartford via Bexleyheath. London Overground also provides services to Highbury & Islington and Clapham Junction . Thameslink operate services to London Blackfriars and Sevenoaks and Orpington . Denmark Hill
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2268-413: The work of his father. In a 2005 study of Scott's work, John Thomas observes that Scott senior's "important church of St Agnes, Kennington (1874–77; 1880s–93) clearly influenced Giles's early work, including Liverpool Cathedral Lady Chapel ." In later years Scott remarked to John Betjeman , "I always think that my father was a genius. … He was a far better architect than my grandfather and yet look at
2322-430: The workforce had been brought back up to strength and the stone quarries at Woolton , source of the red sandstone for most of the building, reopened. The first section of the main body of the cathedral was complete by 1924, and on 19 July 1924, the 20th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone, the cathedral was consecrated in the presence of King George V and Queen Mary , and bishops and archbishops from around
2376-650: Was a British architect known for his work on the New Bodleian Library , Cambridge University Library , Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford , Battersea Power Station , Liverpool Cathedral , and designing the iconic red telephone box . Scott came from a family of architects. His father George Gilbert Scott Jr. was a co-founder of Watts & Co. , which Scott became the second chairman of. He was noted for his blending of Gothic tradition with modernism , making what might otherwise have been functionally designed buildings into popular landmarks. Born in Hampstead , London, Scott
2430-401: Was an eclectic architect, having begun in the Gothic style, and later favouring what his biographer Andrew Saint calls "full-blooded classical or imperial architecture". Architects were invited by public advertisement to submit portfolios of their work for consideration by Bodley and Shaw. From these, the two assessors selected a first shortlist of architects to be invited to prepare drawings for
2484-560: Was appointed as architect for the new Coventry Cathedral in 1942. Pressured by the new Bishop of Coventry for a modern design and by the Royal Fine Arts Commission for a recreation of the old cathedral, he was criticised for trying to compromise between the two and designing a building that was neither fish nor fowl. Unable to reconcile these differences Scott resigned in 1947; a competition was held and won by Basil Spence with an uncompromisingly modern design. After
2538-439: Was changed, the grave was restored and the grave marker replaced in 2012. A requiem mass for Scott was celebrated by Father Patrick Casey at St James's Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Place, London, on 17 February 1960. In addition to his father and grandfather, other members of Scott's family who were architects included an uncle, John Oldrid Scott , a brother, Adrian Gilbert Scott and son Richard Gilbert Scott . Following
2592-441: Was designed by the company's chief engineer, Leonard Pearce , and Scott's role was to enhance the external appearance of the massive architecture. He opted for external brickwork, put some detailing on the sheer walls, and remodelled the four corner chimneys so that they resembled classical columns. Battersea Power Station , opened in 1933 but disused since 1982, remains one of the most conspicuous industrial buildings in London. At
2646-546: Was my first essay into the Romanesque style of architecture. It has always been one of my favourite works". On the capital of one of the pillars beneath the west gallery W. D. Gough carved a representation of the architect, and a shield inscribed "Aegidio architecto" (By Giles the architect) – possibly the only depiction of Scott in stone. Scott's most ubiquitous design was for the General Post Office . He
2700-554: Was one of six children and the third son of George Gilbert Scott Jr. and his wife, Ellen King Samson. His father was an architect who had co-founded the architecture and interior design company Watts & Co. in 1874. His paternal grandfather was Sir (George) Gilbert Scott , a more famous architect, known for designing the Albert Memorial and the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station . When Scott
2754-581: Was one of three architects invited by the Royal Fine Arts Commission to submit designs for new telephone kiosks. The invitation came at the time Scott was made a trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum . His design was in the classical style, topped with a dome reminiscent of the mausoleum Soane designed for himself in St Pancras Old Church yard, London. It was the chosen design and was put into production in cast iron as
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#17327810315902808-420: Was proposed by William Booth's son Bramwell just after his father William's death, as a tribute to him. On 8 July 1929, the college was officially opened by HRH Prince George . The foundation stone was laid in 1928 and the college was completed in 1932. In 2010, the college went under repair in many areas due to subsidence and the interior was in need of updating. By 2012, the renovation was completed and most of
2862-687: Was the Church of the Annunciation, a Roman Catholic church in Bournemouth , in which he made a high transept similar to his original plan for Liverpool. His work on another new Roman Catholic church at Sheringham , Norfolk showed his preference for simple Gothic frontages. Other churches built by Scott at this time, at Ramsey on the Isle of Man, Northfleet in Kent and Stoneycroft in Liverpool, show
2916-503: Was three, his father was declared to be of unsound mind and was temporarily confined to the Bethlem Royal Hospital . Consequently, his sons saw little of him. Giles later said that he remembered seeing his father only twice. A bequest from an uncle in 1889 gave the young Scott ownership of Hollis Street Farm, near Ninfield , Sussex, with a life tenancy to his mother. During the week Ellen Scott and her three sons lived in
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