He designed churches and civic buildings and was the son of Joseph John Scoles. He was born in Hammersmith in London. His father was the noted architect Joseph John Scoles, who was working on Street Ignatius Church in Preston, Lancashire when Ignatius was born.
His father did a lot of work for the Society of Jesus and named his eldest son after Ignatius of Loyola the founder of the son
He was also an architect and designed many churches in the south of England such as Street Francis of Assisi Church in Birmingham and Our Lady of Loreto and Street Winefride"s Church in London. He joined the s on 9 October 1860 and was ordained in September 1866. Two years later, he was sent to, as it was then called, British Guyana.
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.
