Editing Giles Gilbert Scott (section)

===1920s===
[[File:CropthorneCourt.jpg|thumb|Cropthorne Court, [[Maida Vale]] (1930).]]
As Liverpool Cathedral rose Scott's fame grew, and he began to secure commissions for secular buildings.<ref name="dnb"/> One of the first was for [[Clare College, Cambridge]], Memorial Court, which was in a neo-Georgian style on the west bank of the River Cam.<ref name="archive"/> This style was also used for [[Chester House, Paddington|Chester House]], a house he designed for himself in Clarendon Place, [[Paddington]] in 1924, which won the annual medal for London street architecture of the [[Royal Institute of British Architects]] in 1928.<ref name="times">"Sir Giles Gilbert Scott", ''The Times'', 10 February 1960, p. 13</ref> Scott's residential buildings are few; one of the best known is the Cropthorne Court mansion block in [[Maida Vale]], where the frontage juts out in diagonals, eliminating the need for [[lightwell]]s.<ref name="dnb"/>

[[File:Red telephone boxes behind Young Dancer - Broad Street - London - 240404.jpg|thumb|left|K2 [[red telephone box]]es preserved as a tourist attraction near [[Covent Garden]], London]]
[[File:Battersea Powerstation - Across Thames - London - 020504.jpg|thumb|[[Battersea Power Station]]]]
Scott continued working on churches during the inter-war years. Shortly after his work on the nave at [[Downside Abbey]] he was commissioned to design the small Roman Catholic [[Church of Our Lady & St Alphege, Bath]], the first part of which was completed in 1929.<ref name="forsyth"/> His design was inspired by the church of [[Santa Maria in Cosmedin]], Rome.<ref name="gough">[http://www.saintalphege.org.uk/14gough.html " William Drinkwater Gough"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121224105409/http://www.saintalphege.org.uk/14gough.html |date=24 December 2012 }}, Our Lady & St Alphege, accessed 23 June 2012</ref> Scott's distillation of the main elements of that large and ancient church into the much smaller Bath parish church has been described as "a delight" which "cannot fail to astonish".<ref name="forsyth">Forsyth, p. 291</ref><ref name="alphege"/> Some 25 years later he wrote "The church was my first essay into the [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] style of architecture. It has always been one of my favourite works".<ref name="alphege">[http://www.saintalphege.org.uk/2building.html "The Building"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226145613/http://www.saintalphege.org.uk/2building.html |date=26 February 2012 }}, Our Lady & St Alphege, accessed 23 June 2012</ref> On the capital of one of the pillars beneath the west gallery W. D. Gough carved a representation of the architect, and a shield inscribed "{{lang|la|Aegidio architecto}}" (By Giles the architect) – possibly the only depiction of Scott in stone.<ref name="gough"/>

Scott's most ubiquitous design was for the [[General Post Office]].<ref name="dnb"/> He was one of three architects invited by the [[Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment|Royal Fine Arts Commission]] to submit designs for new telephone kiosks.{{#tag:ref|The other two were [[Robert Lorimer|Sir Robert Lorimer]] and [[John James Burnet|Sir John Burnet]].<ref>Stamp, Gavin. [http://www.bffthing.demon.co.uk/html/t6/soane.htm "Soane in Budapest"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517094856/http://www.bffthing.demon.co.uk/html/t6/soane.htm |date=17 May 2013 }}, ''Things Magazine'', accessed 24 June 2012</ref>|group= n}} The invitation came at the time Scott was made a trustee of [[Sir John Soane's Museum]]. His design was in the classical style, topped with a dome reminiscent of the [[mausoleum]] Soane designed for himself in [[St Pancras Old Church]] yard, London.<ref name="kiosks">"New Telephone Kiosks", ''The Times'', 28 March 1925, p. 9</ref> It was the chosen design and was put into production in cast iron as the GPO's "[[Red telephone box|Kiosk no. 2]]" or "K2".<ref name="kiosks"/> In 1932 the design was expanded to include a [[Post box|posting box]] and two stamp vending machines as "[[Red telephone box|Kiosk no. 4]]" or "K4".<ref name="kiosks"/> Later designs adapted the same general look for mass production: the Jubilee kiosk, introduced for [[George V of the United Kingdom|King George V]]'s silver jubilee in 1935 and known as the "K6", eventually became a fixture in almost every town and village.<ref>"More Telephone Concessions", ''The Times'', 1 August 1935, p. 11</ref>{{#tag:ref|Some rural communities were not impressed by the vivid red of Scott's design. A councillor in the [[Lake District]] said, "red might be the best colour for London, but they did not want that colour of Hades brought into the Lake District."<ref>"Red Telephone Kiosks", ''The Times'', 22 August 1936, p. 8</ref>|group= n}}