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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (November 9, 1880 – February 8, 1960) was an architect best known for his work on the Battersea Power Station, Liverpool Cathedral and designing the iconic red telephone box. He came from a family of leading architects, he was the son George Gilbert Scott Jr. and the grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott, one of the country’s most preeminent Victorian architects, designer of buildings including the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station and the Albert Memorial. Sir Giles, he was knighted in 1924, designed the new premises for Whitelands College, which had been founded in 1841 by the Church of England’s National Society as a teacher training centre for women. Originally based on King’s Road, Chelsea, it moved into new premises in Southfields in 1930 to accommodate the ever growing intake of students. These were designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The college remained in Putney until 2005, when it relocated to Parkstead House, a Grade I listed neo-classical Palladian villa on a 14-acre site overlooking Richmond Park, in Roehampton. The main vacated building on the Southfields site was subsequently converted into luxury housing and Scott Avenue was created.
