Augustus Frederic Scott

Augustus Frederic Scott
Born	Augustus Frederic Scott 1854 Rockland St Peter Norfolk England
Died	1936 Norwich, England
Nationality	English
Occupation	Architect
Practice	A F Scott and Sons

Augustus Frederic Scott (1854–1936) a Norwich-based Architect who was born in 1854 in the Breckland village of Rockland St Peter, Norfolk. His work included both civic and ecclesiastical buildings, in addition to several large hotels and many private commissions.

His father was a Primitive Methodist minister called Jonathan Scott. Following the completion of his training he settled in Norwich where he opened up his own practice. His two sons joined him in the business in 1912. Scott was a very principled man. He was a practising Primitive Methodist and a strict teetotaller. He was also a strict vegetarian on moral grounds and a Sabbatarian. He disagreed with paying the part of his local government rates which funded Anglican schools and when bailiffs removed his paintings, he would buy them back again. As a Primitive Methodist he also became a local preacher and enthusiastic cyclist, he travelled thousands of miles by bicycle and even cycled to London for business on several occasions. He also, at his own expense, maintained a Chinese missionary in Western China. In 1920 he became embroiled in a dispute with Percy Carden, the minister at Scott Memorial Church. As a result of the dispute Scott and his family permanently severed relations with the church.

In 1877 following the arrival of the railway to the North Norfolk town of Cromer. Scott operated a practice in Cromer to exploit the building boom on the North Norfolk coast at that time. He designed many of the now listed and important unlisted buildings in Cromer such as the Baptist and Methodist Chapels, the Cliftonville Hotel, Eversley Hotel, the churchyard wall and a number of shops and houses on Church Street and Cliff Avenue.

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Ecclesiastical

Cromer
Ecclesiastical

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Public

Norwich

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