Percy Worthington

{{Short description|English architect}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Use British English|date=April 2017}} '''Sir Percy Scott Worthington''' (31 January 1864 – 15 July 1939) was an English architect.

He was born in [[Crumpsall]], [[Manchester]], the eldest son of the architect [[Thomas Worthington (architect)|Thomas Worthington]]. He was educated at [[Clifton College]], [[Bristol]], and [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]], where he graduated in 1887, and he qualified as an architect in 1890. He subsequently worked as assistant to [[John Macvicar Anderson]] in London, attending the Royal Academy Schools and University College London, before returning to his father's office where he was made a partner in 1891. He continued the business after his father's death along with his much younger brother [[Hubert Worthington]], who became a partner in 1913. Percy's son Thomas Scott Worthington later joined the partnership.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=204600 |title=DSA Architect Biography Report |date=2016 |publisher=Dictionary of Scottish Architects |access-date=29 January 2019}}</ref>

In his early years he was interested in the [[Arts and Crafts movement]] and this was reflected in the [[Unitarian Chapel, Liverpool]], which he designed with his father. From 1904 he became more involved in the revival of [[classicism]]. He was awarded the gold medal of the [[Royal Institute of British Architects]] in 1930 and was [[knight]]ed in 1935. He died at his home in [[Mobberley]], [[Cheshire]], in 1939.<ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB | last = Archer| first = John H. G.| title = Worthington family (per. 1849–1963)| orig-year = 2004| year = 2007| doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/65161| url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/65161| access-date = 11 September 2013 }} ({{ODNBsub}})</ref>

==Projects== In a professional life of almost fifty years Worthington was responsible for more than a hundred projects—domestic, educational, ecclesiastical, and medical—and won many of his major commissions in competition. His work on hospitals was described by his obituarist and confrère W. G. Newton as pioneering.<ref name="ODNB" /> [[File:Plaque, Ullet Road Unitarian Church.jpg|thumb|A blue plaque on a building designed by Thomas and Percy Worthington]] *[[Knutsford War Memorial Cottage Hospital|War Memorial Cottage Hospital]], Northwich Road, [[Knutsford]]{{sfn|Hartwell|Hyde|Hubbard|Pevsner|2011|p=442}} *Kerfield House, Chelford Road, [[Ollerton, Cheshire|Ollerton]]<ref>{{Cite web|publisher=Cheshire East Council |date=2010 |url=http://cheshireeast-consult.limehouse.co.uk/portal/planning/spd/locallist?pointId=1299169990199|title=Local List of Historic Buildings Supplementary Planning Document |access-date=29 January 2019}}</ref> *[[Radbroke Hall]], [[Peover Superior]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=De Figueiredo |first1=Peter |last2=Treuherz |first2=Julian |date=1988 |title=Cheshire Country Houses |location=Chichester |publisher=Phillimore |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cheshirecountryh0000defi/page/150 150–153] |isbn=0-85033-655-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/cheshirecountryh0000defi/page/150 }}</ref> *Woodgarth, Legh Road, Knutsford{{sfn|Hartwell|Hyde|Hubbard|Pevsner|2011|p=428}} *Convalescent Home, [[Great Warford]]{{sfn|Hartwell|Hyde|Hubbard|Pevsner|2011|p=382}} *War Memorial, [[Mobberley]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42804 |title=Mobberley - WW1 and WW2 Cross |publisher=Imperial War Museums |access-date=29 January 2019}}</ref> *War Memorial, [[Whalley, Lancashire]]; Grade II listed<ref>{{NHLE |num=1096086 |desc=War Memorial |grade=II |accessdate=24 May 2020}}</ref> *[[Manchester Grammar School]] *[[Hulme Hall, Manchester]] *[[Ashburne Hall]] *[[University of Manchester Library]], original part. *Parts of [[Harris Manchester College, Oxford]], following the original part by his father.

==Citations== [[File:Barrows Green, near Kendal (2).jpg|thumb|Barrows Green, near Kendal]] {{Reflist}}

==References== {{commonscat|Percy Scott Worthington}} {{refbegin}} *{{cite book |last1=Hartwell |first1=Clare |first2=Matthew |last2=Hyde |first3=Edward |last3=Hubbard |author-link3=Edward Hubbard (architectural historian) |first4=Nikolaus |author-link4=Nikolaus Pevsner |last4=Pevsner |date=2011 |title=The Buildings of England: Cheshire |location=London |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300170436}} {{refend}}

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