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Sandbach Literary Institute, Sandbach

Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and built between 1857-8 in brick with brick patterning in a Gothic style by Samuel Faram of Wheelock at a cost of £2,500 of which £2,100 was contributed by local inhabitants. It is two stories with dormers and was sketched by Alfred Waterhouse in 1859.
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    Hello I’m Robert. I am the great great grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott. I hope you enjoy browsing my blog.
    My sister and I manage our family business Watts & Co. (which was founded by George Gilbert Scott Junior).

    A special thank you to Dr. Ian Toplis for all his research found on this website

  • Some facts about the Scott family
    1

    The Scott family have designed cathedrals on 5 continents including Africa, Asia, Europe,  North America & Australia.

    2

    Two members of the Scott family feature on the new British passport. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and Elizabeth Scott.

    3

    Sir George Gilbert Scott is buried in Westminster Abbey in a grave, which he would have been pleased to learn, unearthed some of the earliest Roman remains discovered in the Abbey

    4

    The iconic red telephone box was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott who took inspiration from Sir John Soane’s wife mausoleum.

    5

    Sir George Gilbert Scott at the age of just 33 built the tallest building in the world (At the time, St Nicholas’s Cathedral in Hamburg)

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