Ignatius Scoles SJ (1 December 1834 – 15 July 1896) was a Roman Catholic

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priest, architect and writer. He designed churches and civic buildings and was the son of

Joseph John Scoles Joseph John Scoles (1798–1863) was an English Gothic Revival architect, who designed many Roman Catholic churches. Early life and education Scoles was born in London on 27 June 1798, the son of Roman Catholic parents Matthew Scoles, a joiner, ...

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Early life

He was born in

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in London. His father was the noted architect

, who was working on St Ignatius Church in

Preston, Lancashire Preston () is a city on the north bank of the River Ribble in Lancashire, England. The city is the administrative centre of the county of Lancashire and the wider City of Preston, Lancashire, City of Preston local government district. Preston ...

when Ignatius was born. His father did a lot of work for the

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and named his eldest son after

Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius of Loyola ( ; ; ; ; born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Basque Spaniard Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the S ...

the founder of the Jesuits. His brother Alexander Joseph Cory Scoles followed him in becoming a priest, but not a Jesuit, instead he joined the

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, later becoming a

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. He was also an architect and designed many churches in the south of England such as St Francis of Assisi Church in Birmingham and Our Lady of Loreto and St Winefride's Church in London.Slevin, Malachy, ''St Francis Church Handsworth'' (Birmingham, 1994) pp.1–17 His early education was at two Jesuit schools, Hodder Place and

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. In 1856, he was elected as an associate of the

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Jesuit

He joined the Jesuits on 9 October 1860 and was ordained in September 1866. Two years later, he was sent to, as it was then called,

British Guyana British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies. It was located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana. The first known Europeans to encounter Guia ...

. Whilst he was there, he designed Georgetown City Hall and helped with the construction of Brickdam Cathedral. He recorded his time in Guyana by writing ''Sketches of African and Indian Life in British Guiana'' (Kessinger, 1885). He returned in England in 1874, but went back to Guyana in 1880 and died there in 1896.

Works

* Rock Chapel at

St Beuno's Ignatian Spirituality Centre St Beuno's Jesuit Spirituality Centre, known locally as St Beuno's College, is a spirituality and retreat centre in Tremeirchion, Denbighshire, Wales. It was built in 1847 by the Jesuits, as a theology college. During the 1870s the Victorian poet Ge ...

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, Wales in 1866. * Interior of Brickdam Cathedral,

Georgetown, Guyana Georgetown is the capital (political), capital and largest city of Guyana. It is situated in Demerara-Mahaica, region 4, on the Atlantic Ocean coast, at the mouth of the Demerara River. It is nicknamed the "Garden City of the Caribbean." It is ...

in 1871 (burnt down in 1913).nationaltrust.gov.gy
accessed 26 March 2013 * Remodeling of

St Wilfrid's Church, Preston Saint Wilfrid's Church is a Roman Catholic Church (building), church run by the Society of Jesus, in the city centre of Preston, Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, England. It was built in 1793 and is situated between Fishergate and Winckley Square ...

, Lancashire, England in 1880.St Wilfrid's History Page
accessed January 2013 * Georgetown City Hall in 1889.

Gallery

File:Georgetown City Hall, Georgetown, Guyana.jpg, Georgetown City Hall File:North end of St Wilfrid's Church, Chapel Street, Preston - geograph.org.uk - 1640712.jpg,

File:ROCK CHAPEL.JPG, Rock Chapel at

References

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