ARCHITECT'S ENCOUNTER
Sir; Giles Scott, the president of the Koyai Institute of British. Architects for its-centenary year, is fond of recalling aft; encounter'ho once had in the: nave of Liverpool .'Cathedral, his. mastorpieee. He was very young at the time^—he was only twenty-one when his design was accepted—and an elderly lady stopped him and, not knowing who. he was, began ,to question him about the building. Finally the woman said in a hushed voice,."ls it not wonderful: that such; a, building could have originated in the small brain of an insignificant man??' Sir Giles adds that he hurriedly escaped as he was fearful of wliat iis questioner .might say if she dTsept;ered who lio, ( wasii He has now been •working.on" the cathedral'-for over .thirty; years, ami it is not finished yet. /.■:■■•■;-,'.-.:;.;' • ■•-;■■■■• ■V. ."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1933, Page 6
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132ARCHITECT'S ENCOUNTER Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1933, Page 6
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