Harold Seymore Scott
Architect
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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