Harold Seymore Scott ARIBA (5 October 1883 – 25 December 1945) was a noted architect best known for designing cinemas during the 1920s and 1930s.
Scott was born in Birmingham in 1883, and he was to live and work here for the rest of his life. However, he designed cinema buildings across the United Kingdom. He married Doris Bailey (1890-1939) in 1910,Doris Scott, Census of England and Wales (1911)Marriage of Harold S Scott and Doris Bailey (1910), England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 and with her had two sons: John Seymore Scott (1914-2012), and Harold Raymond Scott (1915-1991), both of whom, like their father, were architects. From 1911 to 1925 he was in partnership with Harold William Weedon, the two working together to design several high-quality cinemas in WarwickshireHarold William Weedon, Encyclopædia Britannica, Oxford University Press including the Birchfield Picturedrome in Birchfield, completed in 1913, and several upmarket houses in Warwickshire. Scott was an Associate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.Harold Seymore Scott, Midlands and Various UK Trade Directories, 1770-1941
On his death in 1945 he left an estate valued at £156214 7s. 7. to his two sons, his wife having predeceased him.
Cinemas designed by Scott The Empire (1934), Aldershot, HampshireThe Empire Cinema, Aldershot, Cinema Treasures website The Piccadilly (1930), Stratford Road, Birmingham The Electric Picture House (1912), BirminghamBroadway Cinema, Birmingham Images, the Library of Birmingham Regal Cinema (1932), Camberley, Surrey The Oak Cinema (1923), Selly OakThe Oak Cinema, Wonderland Birmingham website Regal Cinema, Handsworth, Birmingham Pavilion Cinema, Stirchley, Birmingham Regal Cinema (1937), Cirencester, GloucestershireRegal Cinema, Historic England database Regal Cinema (1932), LichfieldRegal Cinema, Lichfield, Cinema Treasures website Regal Cinema (1933), Farnham, SurreyRegal Cinema, Farnham, Cinema Treasures website
Cinemas designed by Scott & Weedon Birchfield Picturedrome (1913), Birchfield, BirminghamBirchfield Picturedrome, Cinema Treasures website
Other works by Scott The Wyche Free Church (1911), Malvern, WorcestershireThe Wyche Free Church, Worcester and Dudley Historic Churches Trust Redmarley (1936), 32 Pritchatts Road, Birmingham
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