Editing George Gilbert Scott (section)

===Early work===
[[File:Church at Wall, Staffordshire.JPG|thumb|Parish Church of St John in [[Wall, Staffordshire]]]]
Scott's first work was built in 1833; it was a vicarage for his father in the village of [[Wappenham]], Northamptonshire. It replaced the previous vicarage occupied by other relatives of Scott. Scott went on to design several other buildings in the village.<ref>{{cite web |title=England: Northamptonshire |url=http://www.gilbertscott.org.uk/Page3/Page3Content/England/Northamptonshire.cshtml#388 |website=GilbertScott.org |access-date=20 January 2019 |archive-date=1 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701073757/http://www.gilbertscott.org.uk/Page3/Page3Content/England/Northamptonshire.cshtml#388 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In about 1835, Scott took on [[William Bonython Moffatt]] as his assistant and later (1838–1845) as his partner. Over ten years or so, Scott and Moffatt designed more than forty [[workhouse]]s in the wake of the [[Poor Law Amendment Act 1834]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Workhouse Encyclopedia |date=2014 |publisher=History P |location=Stroud, Glos |isbn=9780752477190 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=18QTDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT37 |access-date=20 January 2019}}</ref> Their first churches were St Mary Magdalene at [[Flaunden]], Herts (1838, for Samuel King, Scott's uncle);<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1100432|desc=Church of St Mary Magdalene|access-date=23 January 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=9 August 2018|title=St Mary Magdalene, Flaunden|url=https://gilbertscott.org/st-mary-magdalene-flaunden/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-23|website=gilbertscott.org|language=en-GB}}</ref> St Nicholas, [[Newport, Lincoln]] (1839);<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1388727|desc=Church of St Nicholas|access-date=23 January 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=8 August 2018|title=St Nicholas's, Newport, Lincoln|url=https://gilbertscott.org/st-nicholass-newport-lincoln/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-23|website=gilbertscott.org|language=en-GB}}</ref> St John, [[Wall, Staffordshire]] (1839);<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1294770|desc=Church of St John|access-date=23 January 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> and the [[Neo-Norman architecture|Neo-Norman]] church of St Peter at [[Norbiton]], Surrey (1841).<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1358427|desc=Church of St Peter|access-date=23 January 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> They built [[HM Prison Reading|Reading Gaol]] (1841–42) in a picturesque, castellated style.<ref>Hitchcock 1977, p. 146</ref>