Education
Scott was apprenticed to Thomas Newenham Deane in the early 1890s.
Scott was apprenticed to Thomas Newenham Deane in the early 1890s.
His offices were first located in Drogheda, later located at 45 Mountjoy Square, Dublin. 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.