Harold Seymore Scott

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,^[1] 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,^[1]^[2] 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 Warwickshire^[3] including the Birchfield Picturedrome in Birchfield, completed in 1913,^[4] and several upmarket houses in Warwickshire.^[5] Scott was an Associate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.^[6]

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, Hampshire^[7]
The Piccadilly (1930), Stratford Road, Birmingham
The Electric Picture House (1912), Birmingham^[8]
Regal Cinema (1932), Camberley, Surrey
The Oak Cinema (1923), Selly Oak^[9]
Regal Cinema, Handsworth, Birmingham^[9]
Pavilion Cinema, Stirchley, Birmingham^[9]
Regal Cinema (1937), Cirencester, Gloucestershire^[10]
Regal Cinema (1932), Lichfield^[11]
Regal Cinema (1933), Farnham, Surrey^[12]

Cinemas designed by Scott & Weedon

Birchfield Picturedrome (1913), Birchfield, Birmingham^[13]

Other works by Scott

The Wyche Free Church (1911), Malvern, Worcestershire^[14]
Redmarley (1936), 32 Pritchatts Road, Birmingham

References

^ ^a ^b 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
^ Harold William Weedon, Encyclopædia Britannica, Oxford University Press
^ Eyles, Allen (2002). Odeon Cinemas 1: Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation. London: BFI Publishing. p. 50. ISBN 0-85170-813-7.
^ Curl, James Stevens, ed. (2006). "Weedon, Harold William". A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Oxford Reference Online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 June 2008.
^ Harold Seymore Scott, Midlands and Various UK Trade Directories, 1770-1941
^ The Empire Cinema, Aldershot, Cinema Treasures website
^ Broadway Cinema, Birmingham Images, the Library of Birmingham
^ ^a ^b ^c The Oak Cinema, Wonderland Birmingham website
^ Regal Cinema, Historic England database
^ Regal Cinema, Lichfield, Cinema Treasures website
^ Regal Cinema, Farnham, Cinema Treasures website
^ Birchfield Picturedrome, Cinema Treasures website
^ The Wyche Free Church, Worcester and Dudley Historic Churches Trust

[Census-1] Doris Scott, Census of England and Wales (1911)

[2] Marriage of Harold S Scott and Doris Bailey (1910), England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915

[3] Harold William Weedon, Encyclopædia Britannica, Oxford University Press

[Eyles-4] Eyles, Allen (2002). Odeon Cinemas 1: Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation. London: BFI Publishing. p. 50. ISBN 0-85170-813-7.

[Curl-5] Curl, James Stevens, ed. (2006). "Weedon, Harold William". A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Oxford Reference Online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 June 2008.

[6] Harold Seymore Scott, Midlands and Various UK Trade Directories, 1770-1941

[7] The Empire Cinema, Aldershot, Cinema Treasures website

[8] Broadway Cinema, Birmingham Images, the Library of Birmingham

[Wonder-9] The Oak Cinema, Wonderland Birmingham website

[10] Regal Cinema, Historic England database

[11] Regal Cinema, Lichfield, Cinema Treasures website

[12] Regal Cinema, Farnham, Cinema Treasures website

[13] Birchfield Picturedrome, Cinema Treasures website

[14] The Wyche Free Church, Worcester and Dudley Historic Churches Trust

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