A talk on architect A.F. Scott (1854-1936) and his impact in Cromer.
Augustus Frederic Scott was a freethinking individualist who was active in Cromer as the town surveyor/architect during Cromer’s rapid expansion in the 1890s and 1900s. He was an unusual architect who mixed pioneering building techniques and materials with the traditional. Working in a variety of styles he undertook both small and large commissions. Scott frequently travelled independently with a fascination for North Africa, Italy and Spain, reflected in some of his designs.
The son of a Primitive Methodist minister and a deeply religious man, his commitment to the non-conformist church brought many church and chapel commissions across East Anglia and beyond and patronage from non-conformist clients. He refused work which he felt compromised his beliefs.The talk will draw upon these influences and cover his major commissions along with a mention of his descendants who followed him with careers in architecture and a grandson's highly unusual building people travel miles to see.
The talk will be by Judith Merrill (great granddaughter of A.F. Scott) who has inherited a large Scott archive, and who with a friend is creating a catalogue of Scott architecture in Cromer.
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