Name

Reynolds and Scott

Designation
Architectural practice
Formation
1947

Manchester and Nottingham based firm with a large post-war church practice. Francis Maurice Reynolds and William Scott practising as Reynolds & Scott, were responsible for more than 20 new churches and major re-orderings for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham. Their churches were typically large, conventional in their planning but modern in their construction, with widespread use of concrete and portal frames. These churches were sometimes relieved by artworks of high quality, such as the stained glass by Joseph and Patrick Reyntiens at Holy Cross, Hucknall.  One of these churches has been described as “Moderne sub-Romanesque”

In his account of the church of St Alban in the 1956 Yearbook Fr Purdy wrote acidly: “One sometimes hears the term ’Neo-Romanesque’ used to lump together all the churches built since the neo Gothic fervour mercifully cooled. It is hard to see what purpose such a label serves except to show that the labeller can recognise a round arch when he sees one”