William Alphonsus Scott

William Alphonsus Scott
Born	1871 (1871) Dublin
Died	1921 (aged 49–50) Dublin
Nationality	British / Irish (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, then Irish Free State)
Other names	W.A. Scott
Occupation(s)	Architect, Academic
Known for	Chair of Architecture at University College, Dublin

William Alphonsus Scott (1871–1921) was a well-known Irish Roman Catholic ecclesiastical architectural historian, academic, and architect active throughout late—nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Ireland. His offices were first located in Drogheda, later located at 45 Mountjoy Square, Dublin.

Career

Scott was apprenticed to Thomas Newenham Deane in the early 1890s. Deane was Superintendent of National Monuments. He worked in London from 1899 to 1902 and was there influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement. His ecclesiastical work, mostly for Catholic churches, was influenced by Early Irish Christian and Byzantine architecture. In 1911, he was appointed Chair of Architecture at University College, Dublin, succeeding the eminent Sir Thomas Drew. Much of his was completed by fellow academic Rudolf Maximilian Butler (1872–1943), then of 23 Kildare Street, Dublin.

Scott is also credited with the restoration and furniture design for Thoor Ballylee, the country residence of the poet William Butler Yeats.

Works

1910 Repair and renovation on the Catholic and Protestant Chapels at St. Davnets Hospital, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. Talbots Inch Village, Kilkenny. Commissioned by Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart.