Background
Caroline Scott was born in Glasgow on 15 March 1924.
Caroline Scott was born in Glasgow on 15 March 1924.
At the end of the war, she completed her studies in Edinburgh, gaining her Diploma in 1950, and became a commercial artist.
Her commissioned works have included statues for Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral, Coventry Cathedral and the National Shrine of Wales as well as numerous sculptures currently in Europe and the United States of America. She gained a scholarship to the Edinburgh College of Art aged 17, but her studies were interrupted by the war. She joined the ATS and served in 93rd Searchlight Regiment, the only one in the world entirely staffed by women, and was based in Wimbledon, London.
In 1954 she entered the Benedictine community in Minster Abbey, Kent, taking Concordia as her name, and was professed on 22 August.
She continued to sculpt, entering a piece for the Manchester Vocations Exhibition in 1959, which led to numerous commissions for sculptures in the following 40 years. Her work can now be seen in Cathedrals and churches across the world.
She was Prioress of the Minster Abbey community 1984-1999.