# Percy Worthington

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English architect

**Sir Percy Scott Worthington** (31 January 1864 – 15 July 1939) was an English architect.

He was born in [Crumpsall](/source/Crumpsall), [Manchester](/source/Manchester), the eldest son of the architect [Thomas Worthington](/source/Thomas_Worthington_(architect)). He was educated at [Clifton College](/source/Clifton_College), [Bristol](/source/Bristol), and [Corpus Christi College, Oxford](/source/Corpus_Christi_College%2C_Oxford), where he graduated in 1887, and he qualified as an architect in 1890. He subsequently worked as assistant to [John Macvicar Anderson](/source/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](/source/Hubert_Worthington), who became a partner in 1913. Percy's son Thomas Scott Worthington later joined the partnership.[1]

In his early years he was interested in the [Arts and Crafts movement](/source/Arts_and_Crafts_movement) and this was reflected in the [Unitarian Chapel, Liverpool](/source/Unitarian_Chapel%2C_Liverpool), which he designed with his father. From 1904 he became more involved in the revival of [classicism](/source/Classicism). He was awarded the gold medal of the [Royal Institute of British Architects](/source/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects) in 1930 and was [knighted](/source/Knight) in 1935. He died at his home in [Mobberley](/source/Mobberley), [Cheshire](/source/Cheshire), in 1939.[2]

## 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.[2]

A blue plaque on a building designed by Thomas and Percy Worthington

- [War Memorial Cottage Hospital](/source/Knutsford_War_Memorial_Cottage_Hospital), Northwich Road, [Knutsford](/source/Knutsford)[3]

- Kerfield House, Chelford Road, [Ollerton](/source/Ollerton%2C_Cheshire)[4]

- [Radbroke Hall](/source/Radbroke_Hall), [Peover Superior](/source/Peover_Superior)[5]

- Woodgarth, Legh Road, Knutsford[6]

- Convalescent Home, [Great Warford](/source/Great_Warford)[7]

- War Memorial, [Mobberley](/source/Mobberley)[8]

- War Memorial, [Whalley, Lancashire](/source/Whalley%2C_Lancashire); Grade II listed[9]

- [Manchester Grammar School](/source/Manchester_Grammar_School)

- [Hulme Hall, Manchester](/source/Hulme_Hall%2C_Manchester)

- [Ashburne Hall](/source/Ashburne_Hall)

- [University of Manchester Library](/source/University_of_Manchester_Library), original part.

- Parts of [Harris Manchester College, Oxford](/source/Harris_Manchester_College%2C_Oxford), following the original part by his father.

## Citations

Barrows Green, near Kendal

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["DSA Architect Biography Report"](http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=204600). Dictionary of Scottish Architects. 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2019.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ODNB_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ODNB_2-1) Archer, John H. G. (2007) [2004]. ["Worthington family (per. 1849–1963)"](http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/65161). *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/ref:odnb/65161](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F65161). Retrieved 11 September 2013. (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/) access or [UK public library membership](https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required.) ((subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/) access or [UK public library membership](https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHartwellHydeHubbardPevsner2011442_3-0)** [Hartwell et al. 2011](#CITEREFHartwellHydeHubbardPevsner2011), p. 442.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Local List of Historic Buildings Supplementary Planning Document"](http://cheshireeast-consult.limehouse.co.uk/portal/planning/spd/locallist?pointId=1299169990199). Cheshire East Council. 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** De Figueiredo, Peter; Treuherz, Julian (1988). [*Cheshire Country Houses*](https://archive.org/details/cheshirecountryh0000defi/page/150). Chichester: Phillimore. pp. [150–153](https://archive.org/details/cheshirecountryh0000defi/page/150). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-85033-655-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85033-655-4).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHartwellHydeHubbardPevsner2011428_6-0)** [Hartwell et al. 2011](#CITEREFHartwellHydeHubbardPevsner2011), p. 428.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHartwellHydeHubbardPevsner2011382_7-0)** [Hartwell et al. 2011](#CITEREFHartwellHydeHubbardPevsner2011), p. 382.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Mobberley - WW1 and WW2 Cross"](http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42804). Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 29 January 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [Historic England](/source/Historic_England). ["War Memorial (Grade II) (1096086)"](https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1096086?section=official-list-entry). *[National Heritage List for England](/source/National_Heritage_List_for_England)*. Retrieved 24 May 2020.

## References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Percy Scott Worthington](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Percy_Scott_Worthington).

- Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; [Hubbard, Edward](/source/Edward_Hubbard_(architectural_historian)); [Pevsner, Nikolaus](/source/Nikolaus_Pevsner) (2011). *The Buildings of England: Cheshire*. London: Yale University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780300170436](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780300170436).

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