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.

The former Empire Cinema in Aldershot in Hampshire in 2018

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

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
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

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[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