Tag: sir george gilbert scott
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Luscombe Chapel
Luscombe Castle was designed by John Nash in 1800, for the banker Charles Hoare. The chapel, by Sir George Gilbert Scott, was added in 1862. Pevsner describes it as ‘Plain outside; inside Scott’s solid early Gothic, with apsidal east end and sexpartite vault, and a north arcade sumptuously adorned with marble shafts to the piers…
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Snowy churchyard
St Gregory the Great, Dawlish, from the Newhay. I love the lichen on these gravestones, and the way they’re all leaning at different angles. The Victorian mausoleum, centre back, was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and belongs to the Hoare family of Luscombe Castle. There are some more pictures of it here and it’s…
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Hoare Mausoleum
This mausoleum belonging to the Hoare family of Luscombe Castle was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-78), architect of St Pancras Station and the Albert Memorial. Situated in the south-west corner of the churchyard of St Gregory the Great, Dawlish, Devon, it is a large Gothic Revival mausoleum built in the form of a…